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When he saw it was me he stepped back." The girl, shown by the autopsy to have been drinking heavily, left her escort at her door, entered her apartment, took off her coat and dress in the bathroom, washed out her silk stockings and hung them over the edge of the tub to dry, cold-creamed her face and put her hair up in curlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Murder for Easter | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Newest "Coronation novelties" on sale in London are cakes of bath soap bearing sculptured busts of King George & Queen Elizabeth in bas relief. Hairbrushes similarly adorned were offered, also a bathroom gadget holding side by side a bust of His Majesty and a toothbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Notes | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Pleased with the prospect of getting $50, Dean Eldridge said: "I am going to tile the bathroom floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God of Years | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...installed in a vacant set of undergraduate rooms in one of the seven houses which very roughly correspond to Cambridge colleges. I had a bed-room, sitting room and bathroom. The sitting room had central-heating and a telephone. There was no nonsense about the telephone either. An undergraduate could call his "St. Louis woman" or anyone he liked at any hour of the day or night without any more bother than from his own home. Every set of rooms in the houses had a dial telephone connected directly with the town exchange. The bathroom had every modern convenience except...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Student Visiting at Tercentenary Finds Harvard's Seven Houses Similar to Those at Cambridge University | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...original capital investment of $50,000 has produced a $42,468,000 company. Mainly on body business from such motor makers as Ford, Chrysler and Packard, Briggs last year earned $9,266,000. To diversify its manufactures the company has lately developed a line of lightweight stamped iron bathroom fixtures with a porcelain finish called "Brig-steel" which it says is cheaper to ship and install than conventional products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Briggs Mixture | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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