Word: seltzers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much water out of Saratoga Springs for the sake of the carbonic acid gas that when Dr. Simon Baruch got there the bathing establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt water into the air. The State...
...Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about $1,000,000) of a fortune which he will continue to inherit by quarters every four years. From his mother, daughter of the late Captain Isaac Emerson (Bromo Seltzer) of Baltimore, twice married since his father's death, he received the string of horses which she had raced under the name of the Sagamore Stable. An enthusiastic turfman, which the senior Vanderbilt was not, young "Al" promptly set out to enjoy his birthday presents. Because Cavalcade and High...
...stuff after the "Tintern Abbey," the "Prelude" and the "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." "In fact," as a CRIMSON editor of yore once wrote, "most of Wordsworth's later poems written while he was a stamp-distributor or laureate have to be taken by us moderns with a bromo-seltzer!" This is a just criticism though it be advanced somewhat too vigorously...
...last week, New York's Royal S. Copeland was bumbling along in the Senate about his food & drug bill. A few Senators like Clark of Missouri (home of Listerine), Bailey of North Carolina (home of Vicks) and Tydings of Maryland (home of Bromo Seltzer), were naturally interested in his bill, but the majority practically drowned out the speaker with loud private conversations. Finally Senator Borah, who is a stickler for Senate etiquette, uprose to remark to the presiding officer...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Ethel McCormack McAdoo Keith, 39, stepdaughter of the late Isaac Edward Emerson (Bromo-Seltzer), onetime wife of Francis McAdoo, eldest son of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; from Walter Winchester Keith, Baltimore socialite; in Towson...