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...seal of the Rodgers and Hart musical, "Higher and Higher" was back in her pool in the Shubert Theatre last night with a long story of early morning adventures to tell her co-star. It was Jesse F. Cleveland '43 who found the 300-pound seal diving from his washbasin into the bathtub of his Claverly Hall room yesterday morning and called the Cambridge Police and the S. P. C. A. to take the errant home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coppers Uncover Kidnaped Actress In Dorm Bathtub | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY IMPROVEMENTS RESULT FROM NEW $20 HYGIENE ASSESSMENT | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tourists | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Walter J. Kohler, new Governor of Wisconsin, came last week a floral lavatory. Presented to the Governor in connection with his inaugural exercises, the blooming washbasin is two feet high and 18 inches wide, and exactly duplicates the "Columbia" lavatory, as manufactured by the Governor in his plumbing fixture factory. It is made of from 400 to 500 white carnations, favorite flower of the Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Carnations & Carnage | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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