Word: toothbrushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the King and Queen she toured London's bomb-gutted East End. In lofty St. Paul's she bowed her head before the ornate sarcophogi of Nelson and Wellington; in a cavernous bomb shelter (8,000 capacity) she was particularly interested in the children's toothbrush rack. When she got to the Red Cross's Washington Club on Curzon Street, the American doughboys greeted her with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops...
...Charles Vyner Brooke, Britain's wealthy White Raja of Jap-invaded Sarawak, turned up in Sydney with all the chattels he had managed to save: a toothbrush and shaving kit in a cloth...
...more than a year Faculty members have been proving that they are ready to throw pajamas and toothbrushes into their suitcases and catch the morning train for Washington in the interests of the nation's welfare. Recently they have demonstrated that they are ready to stand the chance of having only a toothbrush to take along, by voting to staff the new intensive Summer School without salary. With Harvard facing a complete metamorphosis in its entire education pattern because of the war's drain on student and teaching bodies and the imminent need of "speed up"--the Faculty is determined...
...patriotic loyalty of the Harvard Faculty is unquestionable. But their devotion to the teaching profession does not allow such a bold statement. They scurry through the Yard armed with bulky briefcases filled no longer with weighty academic tracts, but rather with pajamas and toothbrush for an overnight stay in Washington. The national emergency does make it possible for every capable man to find a job to do, but the intellectual standards of Harvard should not be impaired by the emergency. Men who devote only half, and sometimes even less of their time to teaching, are detrimental to these standards...
Clement Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, is to Mrs. Strauss a "little man with inconspicuous features and a toothbrush moustache," who, to make matters worse, has "a suburban background . . . smokes a pipe, loves to potter in his garden and do odd jobs of carpentry." "At a recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...