Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking was not made by Amschel on his death bed. It evolved when Nathan, ablest of Mayer's sons, set out for England to seek his fortune, wrote home for more money to buy goods...
Most submarine painters squint at the ocean's bed through glass-bottomed buckets or make their sketches and paintings on dry land after exploring in diving suits. But not Chris Emile Olsen. In a one-piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water. A 65-pound metal helmet is placed over his head and shoulders, attached to an air pump on board ship. He goes down 20 to 35 ft., takes with him a Monel steel tripod, easel, and palette spread with regular oil colors. He paints on 8 by 10 in. glass...
...Italian. In Vienna also she became Frau Otto Krause. Her husband, a tall important-looking insurance director, travels with her to the U. S., complains only of her tremendous energy. She will get up at 7 o'clock in the morning no matter how late she goes to bed. Herr Krause speaks little English but when he hears his wife's praises he taps his big chest and says impressively: "Yes. with her it is all from the heart...
...resting in the gutter and she loves it. The bed just won't appease her any more, Because she loves to sorta putter...
Last week Washington was having its worst measles epidemic since 1921. In the White House, Granddaughter Eleanor Dall was almost over her attack but 555 other Washington children were put to bed with runny noses, watery eyes, coughs and fever. That was more than had had measles...