Word: nightdress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the start, Hopital Trousseau "looked sinister"; the head nurse seemed like a heartless virago. Peggy was not allowed her "pretty, rose nightdress," instead got "a veritable sack." Under regulations barring money and jewels, she could not even keep her religious medal. "Pay for eight days," said the cashier. "If she doesn't last that long, you'll get the extra money back." On return visits, Micheline Vernhes had to wait outside the gates, often in the rain; Peggy sobbed hysterically each time her mother had to leave her alone after the brief visiting hours. After eight days...
...obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample of the brothel-born maunderings of Ulysses' protagonist Leopold Bloom: "I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester ... I stand, so to speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulation fee before the too late box of the general postoffice...
...ranch house, Mrs. John Carroll thought it was just an unusually bright Hawaiian moon, pulled the shades and went back to bed. Soon she awoke again, to the sound of a dull, menacing rumble. She fled in her nightdress, just before the stream of red-orange lava hit her house...