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The delightfully vivid bird, with its blend of comedy and pathos, may be Hardy's bow of his head toward such Romantic birds as the nightingale heard by John Keats in his great "Ode to a Nightingale" much earlier in the century.
An unclear sense-development of this word is mapped out in the OED , but it seems to concede that the modern sense of lavatory originated at the start of this century: the (British) Army and Navy Stores catalogue of 1926 lists a lavatory paper-holder as one of its items, but it was probably earlier: The Illustrated London News reported in 1860 that each ward of the new Florence Nightingale School of Nursing had its own bathroom, lavatories and closet.
McCain's story has been told well before, namely by Robert Timberg in The Nightingale's Song , a 1995 book about five Naval Academy graduates.
Nor does the psalm sing as Henry Ward Beecher put it in “Life Thoughts,” “like a nightingale.
You can buy a kettle whose whistle is in the shape of a brass-plated nightingale or a steam-spewing dragon.