Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Typical of editorials by Bernarr Macfadden on Blood Washing, Sex Determination, Children's Diseases, "Medical Men a Sickly Crowd": "We have received quite a number of communications commenting favorably upon this bathing process [blood washing] though we received one letter from a man who stated that he was suffering from prostatitis and who claimed that the prolonged bath enlarged the prostatic gland to such an extent that ... he had to have an immediate operation. . . ." "Now there are literally hundreds of theories on this particular subject [sex determination]....If from this great conflicting mass of theories we can secure dependable...
...Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey, the ancient ceremony of "redeeming the sword" was held by the Knights of the Grand Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten Knights (Earl Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made...
...process, in brief, is as follows: The photographic film (it can be used wet, direct from the developing bath) is held taut and curved in the form of a cylinder, like an old-fashioned phonograph record. Light, from an ordinary automobile lamp, is passed through a lens and concentrated in a small spot at one corner of the film. At the receiving station a blank film is formed into a similar cylinder. By a device known as a synchronizer, the cylinders at both ends are started simultaneously and turned at the same rate of speed. The light beam travels...
Baby in his bath. His last output in this form is his Alpine Symphony and the Wedding Prelude, written for his son Franz's nuptials early this year. The Baby of the Sinfonia has grown up. Strauss is almost as famous for his operas as for his tone-poems. These are Guntram (1894), Feuersnot (1901), Salome (1905) which raised a storm and had to be suppressed when it first came to the U. S. but which now pro vides Mary Garden with one of her favorite roles, Elektra (1909) at the first production of which the composer wanted real...
...fate of Russia grows ever more tragic. In the unbelievably pleasant days before the war its nobles shared with the French the title of intellectual aristocrats of the world, and its vodka addicted peasants moved native and impressive through a thousand gripping novels. A voluntary bath of blood unfortunately washed the glamor from this old Russian life and left the rest of the world amazed and horrified by tales of the temperamental Red gone politically and economically wild. To the conservative the last twist to Russia's woeful thread of fate is given by Charles Recht's report that Russia...