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...friend tells us that he lived in Gore Hall in his Freshman year four years ago, and that his bathroom there was blessed with a real tub. The next year when his dormitory was incorporated into a House, he moved away, aspiring successfully to a garret underneath a floodlit spire. But he has missed his tub terribly; he has longed many times for the warm artificial pond wherein he used to read, write themes, sleep, invent refreshments and occasionally washed...
...remember that I felt shy and self-conscious about telling the family that we were engaged. I had the perfectly unwarranted feeling that they might be 'sentimental' about it. I put off telling for a long time. Finally, one evening I followed Mother into her bathroom, and told her the news while she was brushing her teeth, so that she should have a moment to think before she said anything. Nick, meanwhile, with great formality was announcing it to Father in the study...
...gawpers got inside the Carnera house, a two-story structure filled with oversized modernistic furniture. The living room is frescoed with portraits of famed prizefighters. The princely guest room contains a double-size reinforced iron bed for Primo. In the adjoining bathroom is his own tub, made by welding two ordinary tubs together. An electric icebox and electric oven are in the kitchen where leathery Mama Giobanna Carnera last week was sweating heroically over enormous meals for her son and his suite...
Soldiers claimed that the first shot was fired by an officer out of his bathroom window. Promptly the soldiers blazed away with machine guns, then rushed two three-inch field guns into place and began pounding great holes in the sides of the National, property of Manhattan's Plaza Operating...
...16th floor of a Milwaukee hotel, pointed a rusty revolver at its occupant, University of Wisconsin's sapient President Glenn Frank. He demanded the keys to Dr. Frank's baggage. Backing slowly away as the thief rummaged through his belongings, Dr. Frank got into his bathroom, slammed and bolted the door, shouted for help out the window. The thief fled, without booty...