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...soldiers and four members of their
families. A tool shed on wheels, housing five, rented for $50 a month.
IJ A shack made of whisky bottles, beer cans and oil cans, cemented
together, cost a corporal, his wife and two children $25 a month. There
was no bathroom. The water supply: an untidy well next door.
...railroad, it would probably look like the "Far Twittering and Oysterperch," which for years has been chuffing through the pages of Punch. Under the management of its founder, Cartoonist Rowland Emett, its carriages are apt to be outhouses, its locomotives are overgrown with vines and their mechanism recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which fun & games might sprout freely, they decided...
...Oxford students themselves cash in on the tourist-trade boom? His undergraduate friends agreed, and within a few days he had signed up 90 of them to act as guides at IDS. a tour. He gave them careful instructions ("You know, point out the Dean's bathroom and that sort of thing"), and to add a bit of glamour, he even hired some London models to accompany each bus out of London and point out the sights along...
...reader; the boy, boat, and body get lost in the flood. William Morgan's "The Cowgirl" is a long synoptic anecdote about a girl from Alabama who goes to New York with a man named Goldstein and ends up shooting at him through a bathroom door. The humor of the piece hangs largely on the contrast between the girls' quaint narrative style and that of Mr. Goldstein; the girl spends a great deal of time emphasizing that her first husband was one of "the greatest housepainters that ever lived." This goes on for five pages and is not very funny...
Marcus W. C. Gregory '54 (at right), who has been catching dripping water from a bathroom above for several weeks now, was glad to hear this. Students in Thayer South have been signing a petition complaining that repairs now being made in the North and Middle entries would not be extended to their end of the dormitory...