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...have noticed in the public lavatories of the Houses that a certain commodity, a commodity that is indispensable to any bathroom, has been marked along the edges of the rolls with colored crayons. Obviously the only possible reason for ornamenting this necessity in this manner is to prevent the theft of the said commodity by the House residents. I have never filched anything from the Houses' public lavatories, for I am a thoughtful boy who keeps a list of petty purchases to be made on the next trip to the Square; but I cannot help feeling viciously insulted when...
...Harvard man has his own telephone, his own bathroom, and has his mail delivered to his entry, yet he lives just as simple a life as a Yale...
...Jose, Calif, court where David Lamson was for the second time last week on trial for murdering his wife (TIME, Sept.11, 1933, et seq.), a crucial question arose. The walls of the bathroom where Mrs. Lamson died were spattered with blood. Did the blood spurt there from the tub, in which her husband claimed she had fallen and fatally cut the back of her head? Or was the prosecution right in contending that the blood got on the walls as Mr. Lamson repeatedly bashed in the back of his wife's head with an iron pipe...
...laterally. That is the maximum spurt with the flesh held clear. But in a normal cut where the edges of the wound do not gape, blood from the back of the head would well rather than spurt. This proves that a severed occipital artery cannot throw blood around a bathroom as the Lamson defense contends...
...book by Madam Minister is about the nearest most readers will ever get to Greenland, for the island is closed to tourists and traders. Traveler Owen set out from Copenhagen on her voyage feeling adventurous but game. The little 1,400-ton ship she went on had only one bathroom, but her cabin was filled with flowers. At her first sight of Greenland's icy mountains Mrs. Owen found herself "struggling with the impulse toward tears." Looking hard at the icebergs gave her strength to face things: "I know I shall fear neither death nor living so much when...