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...over a simple little idea of his own. Brooding over the problem of decently but inexpensively housing the thousands of Washington working girls, the President recalled how he had lived as a schoolboy at Groton-in cubicles with 8-ft. partitions, a bed, bureau, curtained cupboard, with a common washroom down the hall, with showers and toilets and 20 tin basins and 20 tooth-mugs in a row. This recollection looked good to the President. Said he: Why not build such dormitories smack on Washington's beautiful Mall, a 13-block-long stretch of greensward in the heart...
...Voila le gigolo le phis dangereux de Bucharest." All his friends in high Rumanian society knew, said the Old Excellencies, that "he lived on women and blackmail" and "worked for Moruzov's Secret Police." Nearly everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked page boys . . . and, of course, the demimondaines who sat professionally in the lobby." Warned Bratianu-beard, "Watch your step, Madame, and confide in nobody except in us." Said the Grey hound: "Nous sommes les seules personnes discrètes a Bucharest...
Said the British officer: "I claim to be the only man in the world who has entertained an Emperor in a washroom...
...face muscles, but his whole body writhed," said Dr. de Savitsch, "and I saw him make a frantic clutch at the seat of his pants. I could hardly wait for the music to stop. With little effort I persuaded the man to let me examine him ... in the washroom. It was as fine a case of strangulated hemorrhoids as any intern in surgery could wish, and I rushed him off to the hospital before he could escape...
...background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...