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It had peeling wall paper, no air-conditioning, raggy carpeting, and mice.
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Paper fans "were very popular before air conditioning, " Mr. Cohn says.
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They stuff paper towels down the toilets and demand more heat or air-conditioning, according to the season.
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One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" on his yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.
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