Word: spa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar spa, with its wares of fruit and candy, exists to the number of 10. Of hotels, opticians, telegraph offices, undertakers, and plumbers there are two each. There are five banks, a like number of garages and painters, a theatre, an architect, and 10 printers and engravers...
...slight inaccuracy crept into your admirable publication of Aug. 12, p. 59. In mentioning prominent real estate operators you say: "A third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, etc." Frederick Brown is not a native of Russia. He and the undersigned were reared in Karlsbad, the world famous spa in Bohemia now named or rather misnamed Czechoslovakia. Karlsbad has been German for 500 years, despite the fact that the authorities want to force the Check name Karlory-Vary onto the world...
...sponge cake, with the total fixed by the Young Plan for Germany to pay. That part of the plan he was ready to adopt. But he objected strenuously to: 1) the scaling down of the British Empire's share in German reparations to 18%, whereas under the Spa agreement of 1923 she was to get 22%; 2) the allotment to France, Belgium and Italy of nearly all the sums "unconditionally" pledged by Germany "in kind" (i.e., in commodities like coal) for the next ten years, whereas Mr. Snowden wanted them stopped at once, believing that they constitute "dumping...
...district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often large and brawny than thin and puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception...
...Droned through a little perfunctory debate, during which several Peers of the Realm were observed to be reading the just-published memoirs of Viscount D'Ab ernon, who was Britain's first post-War ambassador (1920-26) to Germany. At the Spa Conference in 1920, Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could...