Search Details

Word: toilets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...America," says a Cincinnati friend), walks fast ("You can't call a walk with Mac a stroll. It's more like a run"), drives fast ("He's a good driver but he goes like hell"), flies fast, often pausing just long enough to stuff his toilet articles and an extra shirt into a briefcase before taking off cross-country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Organization Man | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Lorenz described the apartment as relatively well-off and modern. There was a toilet and running water, although no hot water. During the winter, a log heater warms the apartment...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Harvard's 'Experimenters' Taken into Foreign Homes | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...Clegg, 34, found in her car and in a trick skirt, a chicken, two pounds of butter, a small ham, oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn't pay for the bleach because I didn't want my friends to know I bleach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Johnny Dio's man-eating sharks were everywhere, fanning out among makers of dog food, candy, zippers; they even swarmed around crucifix platers, printers, toilet-seat reconditioners, stone setters. In most instances the "organizers" operated under phony union local charters that were traceable to Dio, and ultimately to Teamster Union Big Shot Jimmy Hoffa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Sharks | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...fruit, and she spanked him when he was naughty. He would look at her reproachfully after a spanking, but he generally behaved for a while, at least. He would pick up a rag or a paper towel and try to help Rosemarie when she was cleaning the room. His toilet manners became very good; he always went to the proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that he made to express emotion. A guttural gurgle meant contentment, and a soft cough meant that he was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gorilla & the Nurse | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 409 | 410 | 411 | 412 | 413 | 414 | 415 | 416 | 417 | 418 | 419 | 420 | 421 | 422 | 423 | 424 | 425 | 426 | 427 | 428 | 429 | Next