Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BATH Vice President The Athenia Steel Co. New York City...
Acting Supervising Architect Wetmore is not and never was an architect. Born 71 years ago in Bath, N. Y., he became a court reporter in nearby Hornell. In 1883 he was a cattle buyer in Holland and Scotland. Two years later he was a stenographer in the Treasury at Washington, gradually becoming a more & more important cog in that Department's machinery, When Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth resigned in 1915, Cog Wetmore agreed to take over his job "temporarily." Through Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the first hectic year of Roosevelt II he continued to function "temporarily." Because...
...cornerstones that bear the name of James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, he is proudest of the one under the new post office in his native Bath. He laid that one himself, in 1931. The trowel, suitably engraved, hangs over his mantel. He will take it with him to Coral Gables, Fla., where he plans to pass the rest of his days...
What story there is to this slim, slight comedy concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl...
...reached Athens an hour after the Dutch entry, complained of a splitting headache. Speeding non-stop from England, the Mollisons leaped sensationally into first place when they swooped into Bagdad, first control point, hours ahead of the field. There Amy kept Irak officials waiting while she took a hot bath, her husband waiting while she made a little speech. Hardly had the dust of the departing Mollisons settled on the Bagdad field when in dropped a second British plane, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott and Captain T. Campbell Black, famed for his spectacular rescue of Ernst Udet...