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...strip. Better are literary allusions or foreign quotations. But really the best are those that pun gently, or carry hidden some delicate and awful meaning. Choice examples of this from other years are "Titus A. Drum" for example, or "Lewd Fellows of a Basser Sort", "Twelve Knights in a Bathroom", or "Virginibus Puerisque...
...Bathroom Germicide...
Sirs : TIME for Nov. 14, 1927, p. 29: "Alone, he drank a bathroom germicide and died quickly." To say "a bathroom germicide" is better than to name a specific poison. But for reasons which you no doubt appreciate, the more indefinite such reports, the better. Why not say "he took a poison"? Or, better yet, "he was found dead"? There are some interesting statistics on the relation of suicide incidence to publicity - sorry I haven't the references. THOMAS C. MCVEAGH, M.D. Honolulu, Hawaii. No circumlocution would change the fact that the crippled boy committed suicide, nor deter...
...Bathrooms:" Pooh, pooh! A housewife is proud of her bathroom's cleanliness, not of its ornateness. If she wants fantastic ablutions, she attends the cinema for a few weeks. Meanwhile let her use bathroom fixtures sup plied by The Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wisconsin, or the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co., or their competitors...
...What can I do now?" asked the boy when told of the decision. He moped at home. His father tried to cheer him until calls from patients took him away. The mother tried to comfort her boy but was obliged to leave for an appointment. Alone, he drank a bathroom germicide and died quickly...