Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, the court reversed the judgment, held that neither Piggy nor Puppy could be patented. In so ruling, it referred to another decision which blasted the U.S. Patent Office for patenting a host of thingumabobs that add nothing "to the sum of useful knowledge." Among them: an oval toilet paper roll to facilitate tearing off the sheets; elastic gussets for corsets; a device for stamping initials on a plug of tobacco...
...numerous as your advertisements. The best thing about these posters I think, is that they inform the people of the things they can all do. For instance, how they can arrange a stove chimney so that the family won't get CO poisoning, why one should go to the toilet and not on the ground, why one should not spit on the floor, etc. Many of the health posters in the U. S. say to see your dentist twice a year, see your doctor, but for people without money this is of no use. Our posters tell what the people...
...with bits of scrap iron stolen from the prison workshop. Crawling painfully along the cramped tube, he carried the dirt out in his clothes and flushed it down the cell toilet. Midway, fresh-water seepage formed a narrow chamber high enough for a man to stand in. He matted it with old clothes and rags to prevent a cave...
...changes are small, but anyone who knows the play well will find them interesting. For instance, the corrupt Senator of the Broadway version has become a corrupt Congressman. Paul Verrall used to work for the New Republic, but that isn't mentioned any more. Billie's reference to a toilet is guarded; and more inexplicably, she no longer hums "Anything Goes" in the card-playing scene...
When Scottish Nationalist Dr. John MacCormick, Glasgow's new rector (TIME, Oct. 30), stood up to make his acceptance speech in St. Andrew's Halls, he was greeted with a shower of overripe tomatoes, firecrackers, toilet paper and bursting flour sacks. His address, which he manfully finished in spite of it all, was punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics...