Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly, there is little heat, and the sagging roof is so low that it is impossible to stand except in the center of the room. EUR][ One half of an abandoned garage was rented to a sergeant and his family for $50 a month. There was no bath, no toilet, no water. When a rat bit off the index finger of the sergeant's six-month-old baby, the landlady refused to let the sergeant's wife use her telephone to summon...
...window, to the accompaniment of cheers from the crowd, went all of the Clarks' furniture, including a piano. Then the young vandals tore out door and window jambs, gouged holes in the walls, ripped out light fixtures, smashed radiators, a refrigerator and stove, bashed in the toilet bowl. For good measure they ripped up two apartments below the Clarks (the tenants, like most of the 19 families in the apartment house, had long since fled). Then the mass of broken furniture on the lawn was set afire and the cheers grew louder. Police did not make a single arrest...
...July Journal of the American Dental Association, Dentist Edward S. Mack of San Francisco puts in a strong case for the do-something-about-it school. He admits that interfering with the habit causes frustration. But, he argues, so does toilet training or teaching a child not to lie and steal. "Compared to the intensity of frustration involved in [these] necessary frustrations," says Dr. Mack, "the correction of thumb-sucking hardly bears mentioning . . . And . . . this habit . . . produces a penalty of subsequent deformity out of all proportion to the crime." Besides pushing the teeth out of place, he says, thumb-sucking...
White Flowers & Dyed Paper. One day last week the G.I.s and the workers of Andong tightened their last bolt. The laborers swept the bridge and the Andong fire department gave it a good hosing down. The bridge railings were festooned with strips of G.I. toilet paper dyed red, white & blue. On a wooden platform near the Andong end of the bridge sat Engineer Tandy and local dignitaries, including indefatigable County Chieftain Lee. Behind the wooden platform sat the G.I. engineers and their Korean fellow workers, each wearing in the buttonhole of his fatigue shirt the day's badge...
Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...