Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven buildings (with two old bath houses and a new hotel) constitute Saratoga Spa. They cost the State of New York $6,000,000 plus a $3,200,000 loan from RFC. Saratoga Spa is the only establishment of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.* In equipment and luxury it surpasses the German Spas whose regimens of catharsis and bathing it imitates. With only two bathhouses operating last year Saratoga Spa gave 101,449 treatments at $1.25 to $1.75 a bath, $1.50 to $2.00 a colonic irrigation, 1? a tumbler of mineral water. With the whole establishment running, Saratogans expect...
...assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. While in a Federal war prison he wrote a book on gunshot wounds. Excited by the hydrotherapeutic cures of Vienna's Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, Dr. Baruch dived into the subject, wrote two text books, got the first U. S. municipal bath houses established in Manhattan in 1901, was hired (1913) to evaluate the medicinal values of Saratoga Springs. The Mohawks venerated the mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled by the Revolutionary War, went there to cleanse and heal themselves. After the Revolution George Washington, whose wife spent considerable...
Manufacturers of soda water pumped so much water out of Saratoga Springs for the sake of the carbonic acid gas that when Dr. Simon Baruch got there the bathing establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt...
Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath...
...ancient Egypt, Queen Nefertiti (adapted from a bust in Berlin's Staatliche Museum) is to be seen putting on lipstick while her subjects do calisthenics. In ancient China, a 4th Century procuress braids a student courtesan's hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists is Greece's Helen of Troy sizzling her hair on a curling stick and smirking at the Greek fleet coming to retrieve her. Further on, Rome's Julius Caesar (British...