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...value whatsoever. Another apparent fault is the fact that the one half of one percent of super-students would be entirely excluded from contact with actual experience and the other people of lesser intelligence. The inevitable result would be that when released from this turkish bath of learning they would lack the practicability to apply their knowledge to actuality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...still more furious storm threatens on the horizon. According to a recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet to rise in righteous anger to defend their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TALE OF A TUB | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

...case has taken an unusual turn in that the Grevin Wax Works insist that they possess the only tub in which M. Marat died. They therefore demand that the American disclaim the authenticity of his possession and regard it merely as an eighteenth century bathing device. This the American will not do, for not only has he paid four hundred dollars for his treasure, but also he owns the keys to the room in which the relic was installed. Besides, as the efficiency of such an appliance can in no way compare with that of the creations of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TALE OF A TUB | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney motored up from the Bath and Tennis Club into the heart of Palm Beach last week, and lunched pajama-clad in a public restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mode 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...widowed Hon. Mrs. Clive Lawrence who was married to the Lord High Chancellor, himself a widower. Little Domini came to the wedding dressed all in primrose yellow, with a primrose yellow hat edged with white fur. Awed by the sombre splendor of the great chapel?where Knights of the Bath worship?Little Domini sat mouse quiet as long as she could. Suddenly it seemed to occur to her that so much pomp deserved at least one question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hogg's Wedding | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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