Word: washroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That fact accounted for the columns and columns of space the Press of the country gave last week to the bruise which Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana's tousle-headed, button-nosed "Kingfish," received on his left eye in the washroom of the Sands Point Bath Club fortnight...
When about midnight the lights went down for the amateur floor show, Huey Long went shuffling off to the washroom. There were others there. The raucous Senator was impatient of any delay. Imperiously he ordered a young man to stand aside for the "Kingfish of Louisiana." "Take it easy-take it easy," replied the young man. Unable or unwilling to restrain himself, Senator Long proceeded to commit a gross indignity upon the young man. When he felt what was happening to his leg the young man wheeled around, drove his knuckles with all his might into the offender...
...Whiz Bang, magazine of washroom humor. Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett used to refer often to "the henna-haired heckler," meaning his wife. Antoinette Fisher Fawcett. Of late such references have been absent. Publisher Fawcett last month got a divorce for infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite." Last week the "heckler"?who prefers to call herself "the red headed dynamo" or "Animated Annette" found a new way to heckle her ex-spouse. With her first alimony checks she bought a neighboring bawdy joke-book called the Calgary Eye Opener, prepared to compete with Captain Billy...
...Lafayette for the best food in the city. Its Hasenpfeffer and roast oysters were famed. It boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other hotelman, Sam Shaw was bothered by the problem of washroom literature. He solved the problem by putting up in the men's lavatory an enormous blackboard, bisected by a white line. One side was headed POETRY the other PROSE. There was plenty of chalk for the suddenly inspired, an eraser for the censorious. In 1914 the city bought the Grand Union...
Union Depot (Warner). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is an alert hobo who, after stealing a hat and coat from a men's washroom, reconnoitres in the station until he has a good suit of clothes, a roll of bills and a girl. His tramp companion picks up a parcel check which Fairbanks cashes for a violin case full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve...