Word: besse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelm II. In an effort to appease him, whenever they stood at attention in his presence they folded their hands over their bulging abdomens. This posture made them look like fantastic beer-mugs, a sight which vexed Wilhelm further. Hearing that a sturdy little blonde U. S. esthete named Bess M. Mensendieck taught men & women how to stand and move gracefully, by means of what she called "functional exercises," he summoned her to do the same for his court. Cried the Kaiser: "They are the most awkward women in the world. One never sees women at the courts of London...
...Bess Marguerite de Varel Mensendieck, a sculptress and a coloratura soprano with an M. D. degree from the University of Zurich, set up a school for exercises at Potsdam. By-&-by she had similar schools all over Germany and in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands. She became the best known physical culturist south of Sweden. Eventually she returned to the U. S. and. though her vogue has been quieter here, her system of functional exercises is being used at eminently respectable schools like Finch (Manhattan J, Greenwich Academy, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill (Greenfield. Mass.), Laurel (Cleveland), Ogontz (Ogontz...
Founder of Bachelor was no bachelor but an intense, earnest lady of Circleville, Ohio. Publisher Fanchon Devoe (actual name: Mrs. Robert Lee Criswell) was graduated in 1921 from Ohio State University as Bess Willis. Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer. Inspired to create Bachelor and having heard from afar of Manhattan's elegant Bachelor Lucius Beebe, she sought him out on his home grounds for advice. Bachelor Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side...
...realm must renounce his royalty. Since the beginning of time it has been sheer folly to advise a man to change his mind about marriage. But if, as it seems, a solution is not forthcoming, the only wise move is to take a lesson from Good Queen Bess, and procrastinate. As Professor McIlwain explains, the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson till next April anyway. And if Mr. Baldwin persists in driving out the chief obstacle to his Conservatism, he will probably find that the name of a ruined king is far from a ruined rallying cry, and that the defiance...
...Association's field trials began 15 years ago. First day of last week's meet was devoted to the Bench Show, in which dogs are judged solely on build and looks. In this event a 13-month-old black, white & tan Walker "gyp" (Texan for bitch) named Bess, owned by Paul Johnson of Liberty Hill, took the grand championship. Inexperienced, she made no showing in the field trials of the next three days, in which judges picked a 3-year-old gyp named Keno, owned by Robert Spurgeon Guyness of Poteet, as best of the 257 in speed...