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...Charles is abnormally muddy at this season, so that a layer of silt became deposited upon their respective costumes. Anxious to remedy the faux pas the young man was quick to suggest they retire to his room, where by means of a forceful stream of water from the shower fixture overhead they removed the silt from their clothes-simultaneously...
Forward are comparatively luxurious passenger quarters. Inside are 25 tiny, windowless cabins, each with two berths and running water. Outside are the dining room and lounge. Connecting them are a companionway and two 50 ft. promenade decks with windows. There are seven toilets, one shower-bath. On a lower deck are the bar and a smoking room, first ever built in an inflammable dirigible...
Regardless of Frank Muto there would have been no farewell speeches from the stage last week, no shower of flowers. Bouquets, Toscanini once said, "are for prima donnas and corpses, not for a conductor." When he had regained his composure he received a delegation from the Philharmonic directors who presented him with an elaborate silver beer service (he never drinks beer), a Beethoven letter and a glowing testimonial. From the Hall he went to his hotel where he gave a supper party for his orchestramen...
...bitter heart. In 1908 in a rural English chuch he says he had a stirring, heart-warming religious experience which set his life on a new course, revealed new spiritual powers to him. These new powers, enabling him to "probe souls" and "cleanse" by extracting confessions, earned him a shower undesirable publicity in the lively 1920's. It was then that Frank Buchman and his young co-workers invaded British and U. S. colleges, became famed as the religionists who held houseparties, consorted with the well-to-do, got people publicly to "share" their sins-misdeeds which turned...
...more generous than the Founder ever knew. From a long waiting list the College annually selects 150 boys, indentures them until they are 18. Moppets as young as 6 are admitted. They live in dormitory groups of 25-to-35, obey a governess who sees that they take a shower every night, change their linen every second morning. As they grow older they branch out into larger sections under masters, live in regular boarding-school dormitories, enjoy open fireplaces, comfortable furniture, phonographs, radios. Except for Pennsylvania's late Governor Martin Brumbaugh, who came on invitation, no ordained clergyman...