Word: washbasin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School entirely new quarters have been provided in Austin Hall in the ground floor room formerly used as a smoking room. The Hygiene Department has had for some years a part-time doctor who several afternoons a week occupied a small cubbyhole devoid even of a washbasin, situated behind the entrance to the reading room. Facilities were so poor, however, and the doctor in attendance was there so short a time that only 57 per cent of the men registered as Law students made use of the opportunity to consult him during the year...
...devotion which ultimately elects him Mayor of New York. His first appearance is made in front of Rector's. The painted backdrop does not look much like the facade of Rector's; neither does Broadway Joe's cab look like any other ever seen. A washbasin with running water pops out of the top, a shoe-shining device promptly begins whirring over the driver's toes. The seat flops back and a gas range appears. From an icebox which has handily sprung out of the vehicle's superstructure, Broadway Joe extracts the makings...
...Next week Lily Pons begins a concert tour with first stops at Buffalo, Harrisburg, Washington. Ita, the seven-month-old jaguar which she brought last autumn from South America, will travel with her. Ita rests most comfortably on cold, smooth steel. On the train he will sleep in the washbasin. In hotels he prefers the inside of a grand piano...