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...nights ago one of the most eminent physicians in New York received a tel phone message to hurry over to a home in the upper Eighties, off Park Avenue." The physician "was conducted upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused her extreme pain. Solution: the physician called for carpenter's tools, removed sill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sill Story | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

From Miss Elizabeth Frances Sybil Stuart of Bath, England, direct descendant of William Penn, the last remnant of the Penn family's holdings in Pennsylvania was bought by Henry Steinman Snyder, onetime vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. In purchasing Green Pond, near Farmersville, Pa., Mr. Snyder discovered that 3.69-acres of the pond were still owned by the Penns, traced ownership to Miss Stuart, had a copy of the original deed sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

First comes a shot of Fairbanks running around a boat deck; then one of Fairbanks dressed in a bath-towel, doing his exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Rogers of the Class of 1822. When built it supplied athletic facilities for the entire College; it soon proved to be inadequate, however, as is shown by the fact that the President of the College proposed building a larger structure and converting the old into a "swimming bath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW FIRE STATION WILL BE BUILT IN COLONIAL STYLE | 11/19/1931 | See Source »

Oldster George Lansbury, when Commissioner of Works, built so many bright orange public bath houses that his London slum constituency returned him to Parliament last week despite the Conservative landslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monstrous Majority | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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