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...exists, for Luca, his nephew Andrea's five sons spent most of their time making Delia Robbia ware: lunettes, busts, plaques, friezes, fountains, lavatories. Shiploads of these copies remain. So much Delia Robbia ware is assembled in the Florentine Bargello that the third floor looks like one interminable bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Plaque | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Home Ownership last December. The U. S. is poorly housed. Probably less than half of its homes measure up to "minimum standards of health and decency." Its slums are among the worst in the world. Only one out of four farms has central light and heat, running water, a bathroom. One source of improvement will come from putting attractive homes within the reach of the small wage-earner who hitherto has given 20% of his income to a landlord. Low construction costs make the present opportune for such a movement, and building materials companies with little business on hand watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Housing | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

Prime facts to jolt the complacency of citizens who still believe that the Great American Bathroom is a national institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Machines to Live In | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...piece of paper with a big red seal on it, ordered: "Come with me." Kahahawai, supposing that he was under arrest, got into a sedan waiting at the curb. The car sped off to a house. A gun was jammed into his ribs. He was forced into a bathroom. A shot was fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Murder in Paradise | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...bleed to death. His corpse was undressed and wrapped in bed sheets from which all laundry marks had been clipped. To support their theory the police announced that they had found Kahahawai's brown cap in the Massie home, a bloody towel in a closet, an unhinged door,.a bathroom freshly mopped, a bed stripped of sheets and a coil of new white rope such as was around the body. On Sailor Jones was found a .32-calibre revolver clip like the one used in the killing, with one cartridge missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Murder in Paradise | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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