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...after arranging his pocket 'kerchief, he strode boldly forward, progressing a few yards before the ice gave way. With the nonchalance of a cigarette model, the hero rolled out upon the thin ice and dragged himself to safety, effecting a rather neat self-rescue. On emerging from his polar bath, he remained ashore just long enough to tell the crowd which had gathered that he was a member of the Boston Brownies, the Bay State division of the cult of polar bathers...
That the Home Office has, in bland, knowing Sir Bernard Spilsbury a Sherlock Holmes who never fails, is a settled Empire conviction. Did he not send Crippen to the gallows, Crippen the first murderer ever apprehended by wireless? (see p. 40). Then there was Smith, "the Brides-of-the-Bath Bluebeard." To prove how easy it was for Smith to drown his brides in his tub without a struggle, did not Sir Bernard Spilsbury all but perform that feat himself?* Ever since the discovery last summer of Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1 (TIME, July 2) and Brighton Trunk Murder...
Meanwhile the Prince was being trailed around Budapest by a file of cars a block long. Finally someone had the bright idea of telling him about Gellert's bath for men only. Edward posted to Gellert's as fast as he could, stripped, had a hot soak. Word spread quickly and all Budapest society flocked to the hotel café. But H. R. H. was satisfied where he was. When tea time came, he too had tea brought into the men's bath, like the morose old Magyars staring at him dully through the mist...
...read the morning papers if I am alone, otherwise I look them over, noting what I must read later on, then I run down and get into my car and drive myself out to where the horses are waiting. An hour's brisk ride along the Potomac, a bath on my return. If I am lucky, I will be at my desk between 10:30 and 11 o'clock...
...office on the afternoon that the Brazilian Trade Agreement was to be signed. Five of them carried the usual equipment which they proceeded to set up in anticipation of the occasion. The sixth, Thomas D. McAvoy, had a tiny camera containing film specially sensitized in an ammonia bath. The President, ignoring the cameramen, continued with his work. He glanced at letters and orders. He squiggled his signature, doing his duty and eager to get it done (above) while Gus Gennerich stood ready with a blotter. Secretary Marvin Mclntyre hovered helpfully in the background. The Presidential package of Camels lay open...