Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine chandelier! thought Mr. Healy, and said so. A darlin' chandelier! Springing, he seized a loop of it in his hairy hand and swung himself into the air. Crystals fell in a tinkling shower. Mr. Healy roared with joy. The fixture groaned, plaster crumbled-down went Mr. Healy with the chandelier atop him. Messrs. Tiernan and Dacey rocked in woozy mirth...
Inside the Century, in addition to barber and valet service, ladies' lounge and maid service, shower baths, free stenographer, observation car telephone (until departure), and market and sport reports, travelers now notice that white enamel is replacing nickel on plumbing fixtures, that upper berths are more private and accessible. These features, of course, are to the Pullman Co.'s credit, as is much else about the Century...
...only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator...
...safely announced at last that the season has turned for good. Rain has become the mild, innocuous shower bath that characterizes spring downpours, the baseball nines are in the field, the crews crowd the river, and the Vagabond has purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...
...partly undone. A Cambridge realty company announced that it would have ready by autumn a luxurious brick structure called "The Varsity," to be run like a hotel, solely for Harvard students. Sophomores and Juniors would presumably be the only classes eligible to live there. There would be collapsible beds, shower baths with every suite, all-night elevators, with porters, servants, maids and bellboys "available at all times." The cost: $250 to $800 per annum...