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...Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Different World | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...Psychic Bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox Elects | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox Elects | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

Mail is dumped on the great man's coverlet. He rummages, hurls books to the floor. "To the bath! To the bath!" (An enormous tub is filled thus almost weekly; a secondhand bookseller empties it, giving 50 francs a bath, verse or prose.) Letters all go into the fire. No, here is one from a madwoman, addressed in blue, crimson, green inks. "She begs me to save my soul, poor crazed thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatole at Ease* | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...chief events at White Court were calls by notables: Athletes from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge called; Senator and Mrs. Edge dropped in as they motored up to Bath, Me., and left cards; Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, recently elected (TIME, July 13, WOMEN), paid a visit. Italian Ambassador Giacomo and Signora Antonnietta de Martino left cards on their way to the Italian summer embassy at Beverly, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At Swampscott | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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