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...Honourable David Margesson, M. P., Conservative Party Whip, found himself in a very tight spot. Weekending at the Sussex house of his friend. Transport Minister Euan Wallace, Captain Margesson retired about midnight to his bedroom in an otherwise unoccupied wing. In the bed room was a cupboard (containing a washstand) equipped with an automatic light switch. When the door was open, the light was on; when closed, the light was out -or at least it was supposed to be. Captain Margesson, impelled by what he later de scribed as "childish curiosity," wanted to make sure. He squeezed his great frame...
...university, his whole family moved to Belgium so he could attend Louvain. Otto learned to live with the austerity of his great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef's at Schönbrunn, with books, a table, chairs, an iron bed, a washstand. He drove to his studies in a second-hand car. When it broke down he gladly crawled under to fix it, but because royalty could never appear in lowly shirtsleeves, had to leave his coat on. When faithful Hungarian legitimists heard about this, 101 of them passed the hat and bought...
...Metropolitan Opera House. He climbs the creaky stairs to the primo tenore's dusty dressing room,* fumbles around among the costumes of Tenors Richard Crooks and Giovanni Martinelli for his own raiment of deer skins and knightly robes. He washes himself in an antiquated, marble-topped washstand, glowers at the dead flies in the basin-shaped chandeliers, and applies his grease paint. In exactly 20 minutes he is dressed as the young Siegfried, his noble paunch encased in a deer skin, his stubby grey hair covered with a luxuriant blond wig. Thus accoutred, he lights a big black cigar...
Inside, Roomette cars have 18 sleeping quarters, nine on each side of the corridor, and a porter's service compartment. Across one end of each roomette is a double seat with a folding arm rest. In an opposite corner is a toilet. Concealed in one wall are washstand and wardrobe. At night a bed 6 ft. 5 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. lets down from a 10 in. recess in the wall back of the seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except...
John Sanford, white Georgia native, 27 years a sharecropper on various Emanuel County farms, once "made enough to buy two beds, half-a-dozen chairs, a dresser, a washstand, and the kitchen stove. An-other time he made enough to buy cheaply a second-hand automobile. The furniture has lasted, except for three of the chairs; the automobile did not last. He does not own anything else, except a change of clothes and a few odds and ends. His wife cuts his hair; he pulls the children's teeth when they begin to bother." Last year he made...