Some of the more customary "showers" of common household articles for the new bride are toothpaste, milk of magnesia, screen doors, copies of Service's poems, Cape Cod lighters, pictures of "Age of Innocence" and back numbers of the "Atlantic Monthly."
"Perfect Behavior A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises"
Donald Ogden Stewart
We mixed the gritty powder that the Germans gave us for toothpaste with water and pasted it in the corner of the windows like snow.
"The Biography of a Rabbit"
Roy Benson, Jr.
Not concerned with the dilemma of easing life's toothpaste form into dental crustings or oblivion's dark shadows from lightless paths, the giant assumed guardianship over his fibro-tissual home.
"Eyeshine"
Paul Cameron Brown