Word: washroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tries to be charming and affable to all comers. He used to run around to his quota of parties, but nowadays he has little time for such gay amusement. Though he has not yet become a teetotaler, he is no longer the Huey Long of the Sands Point washroom. This change is not reform; it is ambition, guided by a keen sense of self-advantage. Senator Long may have his faults and flaws but he does not neglect his business, which is politics...
Blustering Huey Long is on the front page again. Apparently such events as the washroom black eye will not dampen an unquenchable thirst to be before the public eye. Now the Senator from Louisiana bombastically attacks General Johnson for the benefit of Randolph Hearst's news hawks, and much to the delight of the Reverend Father Coughlin...
...Pease's successful campaign in 1909 to have smoking banned in New York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice of arresting subway smokers on the spot, or the occasion when he struck a cigaret from the lips of a fellow-passenger in a Pullman washroom. When the 40 had drained their glasses of grapefruit juice, up rose Mrs. Audrey Fiedler to tell how Dr. Pease adopted her four years ago, saved her from eight drug-dosing physicians...
...smart doctors in Houston installed a urinalysis machine in a hotel washroom...
Died. William Lorimer, 73, onetime "Blond Boss" of Illinois Republican politics whose U. S. Senatorship ended in notorious election scandals; of heart failure; in a Chicago railroad station washroom. After six terms in the U. S. House, in 1909 he was elected Senator by a large combine of Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois Legislature. Year later the Chicago Tribune was furnished with papers purporting to show that he had bought his seat through a $100,000 "jack pot" to which even Illinois River fishermen had been forced to contribute. When the Senate gave him a clean bill, the Tribune...