Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...
...Psychic Bath...
Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...
Mail is dumped on the great man's coverlet. He rummages, hurls books to the floor. "To the bath! To the bath!" (An enormous tub is filled thus almost weekly; a secondhand bookseller empties it, giving 50 francs a bath, verse or prose.) Letters all go into the fire. No, here is one from a madwoman, addressed in blue, crimson, green inks. "She begs me to save my soul, poor crazed thing...
...chief events at White Court were calls by notables: Athletes from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge called; Senator and Mrs. Edge dropped in as they motored up to Bath, Me., and left cards; Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, recently elected (TIME, July 13, WOMEN), paid a visit. Italian Ambassador Giacomo and Signora Antonnietta de Martino left cards on their way to the Italian summer embassy at Beverly, Mass...