Hot air hand dryers, the kind used in lavatories of cheapskate businesses, do a lousy job. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Sick and shivery” (as Light imagines the nervous writer), Virginia decided to fire her the next day, but instead the Woolfs compromised again, hiring a char to do more of the rough work (cleaning lavatories). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Buñuel mischievously swapped dining rooms and lavatories for The Phantom Of Liberty's infamous dinner party, and prevented guests from leaving another one in The Exterminating Angel. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Mr. Shaw and other members of the production team made frequent visits to an area in California's Mojave Desert where old planes are retired to find parts of 707 jetliner aircraft, like window panels, galleys, seats and lavatories, says set decorator Jacqueline Jacobson. ❋ Candace Jackson (2011)
Alone, Declan found the door to the lavatories, searching until he located a sink that still pumped well water. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)
Gennady Padalka, a veteran Russian cosmonaut, says that space officials from Russia, the United States and other countries now require cosmonauts and astronauts to eat their own food and follow stringent rules on access to other facilities, including lavatories. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As in the air, guests share lavatories along the corridor, but they now have showers and porcelain toilets. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Ayckbourn recently mistook a burglar in his home for one of his regular flow of visitors, and was caught up in a brief but passionate debate over whether his theatre was as important as threatened local public lavatories. ❋ Unknown (2011)
—Larger windows, electric sunshades and bidets in the lavatories are just a few of the features of the 787 Dreamliner that All Nippon Airways Co. passengers will experience starting next month as the first of the new Boeing Co. jets begins commercial service. ❋ David Kesmodel (2011)
We learn for instance, that Americans got the toothbrush in 1773 (275 years after the Chinese), that the toilet flush (invented in Europe in 1598) did not reach America until 1764 and that public lavatories (much used by the ancient Romans) were not available in America until they were introduced in the late 17th century in Boston—where, according to Mr. Robertson, "even women were wont to defecate in the street." ❋ Unknown (2011)
The details: Basically what the IPC is now saying is that water coming from bathtubs, showers, lavatories (read sinks), and clothes washers are no longer required to discharge into the sewer main. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Why don't they just put meters on the facilities, including the lavatories, and issue cards to the astronauts and cosmonauts so that they can use any facility at any time? ❋ Unknown (2009)
They met up with Thad outside the lavatories, then the three emerged from the bunker into pouring rain and whipping winds. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)
Calixto Bieto, ENO, 2002The scene of 14 conspirators sitting on lavatories grabbed the headlines, but this updating to post-Franco Spain remains the most successful of Bieto's provocative productions seen in the UK. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Together we counted 35 more floating by, flushed straight out of their ship's lavatories into the azure water. ❋ Unknown (2012)
