Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Villa San Michele, just outside Florence, is a converted 15th century Franciscan monastery whose facade and grand loggia were designed by Michelangelo. Guests dine in the same refectory in which the ancient monks once broke bread. Its 32 rooms (all with private bath and telephone) run from about $17 to about $20 a day for full pension...
...looked like a revival of The Green Pastures. Or maybe a toga-clad troupe whooping it up in ancient Rome. But all those friends, Romans, and countrymen turned out to be simply the Order of the Biltmore Bath, gathered in Manhattan for a 75th-birthday celebration honoring James Aloysius Farley, grand old man of the Democratic Party and the Coca-Cola Co. Politically, says Farley, he is "not very active because I'm not invited to be." He nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among...
...lively and detailed study of Hetty and the fortune she fostered raises some interesting psychological questions. What meaning, for instance, did money have for a woman who carried her cash-often only a few crumpled dollar bills-in a handbag tied around her waist? Who avoided taking a bath, probably in order to save soap, and who laboriously extracted "perfectly good nails" from a broken sled and saved them for some vague future use? Who spent half the night looking for a 2? postage stamp she had mislaid? At a time when Hetty maintained a $30 million cash bank balance...
...Spot Check. The expected complications arose. One of Mrs. Felix Cittadino's five children had just gone to the hospital for a tonsillectomy, and she had forgotten the test date. But when the nurse rang her doorbell, she hauled a baby out of the bath, called another youngster home from a neighbor's. She asked: "Do you shoot something in or take something...
...fewer than 53 columnists, ranging downward from Walter Lippmann to Count Marco, a no-count native of Pittsburgh whose real name is Marco Spinelli. In "Beauty and the Beast," Marco offers advice to females, mostly matrons interested in getting their husbands interested again, and once recommended: "Take a bath with your husband. . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over." Newest addition to the growing throng is Society Columnist Frances Moffatt, who after eleven years as chief chitchatterer for the Examiner, gave the paper notice one Monday and flounced...