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...Majesty was nightly the focus of gay revels, and on the morning of King George's funeral was in such condition that a masseur named Stoebs was hastily summoned from a fashionable West End Turkish bath. He worked over King Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind...
...impression of the sense; they do not so much read as search for clues. But even nervous readers will find enough of those to lead them to an opinion: 1) Patchen's language dates him as definitely as a Eugenie bonnet: These withered times prepare no turkish-bath. . . . We can't get there by taxicab or sentiment. . . . Glory squashed in the hinge of a history. . . . 2) When lucidly emotional he writes an angry Letter to a Policeman in Kansas City. 3) When not making experimental "statements," he hymns the Revolution. 4) He knows when he has created such...
...fine table. His safari, entirely organized for him by experts, will cost him about $2,000 a month per gun. His white hunter will take him where the game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker. camel's hair jacket, light polo coat for chilly evenings, camera & films, light, ankle...
...impregnation in a synthetic wax prepared from chlorine and naphthalene. People who work with such waxy compounds run the risk of getting their pores plugged, breaking out with pimples. To safeguard against that industrial hazard in its York factory, General Electric compelled every workman to take a shower bath before leaving the factory, supplied freshly laundered overalls twice a week, kept a physician in constant attendance...
...Major General John Biddle (retired), 76, Superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy (1916-17), Assistant Chief of Staff of the Army (1917-18), Commander of U. S. forces in Great Britain (1918-19) for which he was made Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath; after long illness; in San Antonio...