Word: baden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Boomer's idea, the art exhibition was suggested by a 29-year-old German girl named Maja B. (for Johanna)* Geek, a secretary in the Waldorf's foreign department. Herself the owner of an inn in Baden-Baden, placid Miss Geek has been greeting German, French and Italian visitors for the Waldorf since 1932. She arranged her first Waldorf workers' show last year, but that was small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas...
...convention cost the 101 girls (aged 16 to 20) nothing. Its funds were provided by the Juliette Low Memorial Fund. It was the late Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low who, after she had met Boy Scout Founder Robert Baden-Powell, founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Ga. 27 years ago. There are now some 400,000 Girl Scouts in the U. S., one for every two Boy Scouts. Outside the U. S. may be found another million Girl Scouts or Girl Guides. According to The Girl Scout News Sheet, Mrs. Low was "handicapped by deafness and later by a fatal illness...
...British Scout law of Lord Baden-Powell is long and rambling, the U. S. Scout law brief, better written. British Law No. 2 says: "A Scout is loyal to the King and to his officers and to his parents, his country and his employers. He must stick to them through thick and thin against anyone who is their enemy or who even talks badly of them." The U. S. Law No. 2 says simply: "A Scout is loyal. He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due: his Scout Leader, his home and parents and country." Aside from...
...home in the drawing rooms of the rich and great, the acquisition of "Inisfada" was almost routine. Though they enjoy no personal property, many Jesuits work and study in places like the vast Massachusetts estate of the late W. E. D. Stokes, and in the hotel at West Baden, Ind. which the late Edward Ballard gave them. To the giver-away of "Inisfada" and its treasures, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, the decision she made public last week marked a definite turning point in an unusual life...
...Blattner of St. Louis & Jimmy McClure of Indianapolis: the world's men's doubles table tennis championship; at Baden, Austria...