Word: spas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with some important token, which he personally hung on the already crowded walls of his rambling duplex penthouse on upper Fifth Avenue. Unmarried, he called his pictures his "children...
Quiet. Meanwhile, in Germany Füher Hitler went at week's end to his cool retreat in Bavaria. Many of his political lieutenants were taking a rest. The German generals were said to be scattered in spas around the country. The Foreign Office at Berlin was almost deserted and hard-working Nazi editorial writers, finding little news to discuss, ridiculed the "democracy-manufactured" crisis over Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, and made fun of the "'war of nerves" which the French and British Governments had professed to believe was beginning. In fact, official Germany last...
...bath houses and a new hotel) constitute Saratoga Spa. They cost the State of New York $6,000,000 plus a $3,200,000 loan from RFC. Saratoga Spa is the only establishment of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.* In equipment and luxury it surpasses the German Spas whose regimens of catharsis and bathing it imitates. With only two bathhouses operating last year Saratoga Spa gave 101,449 treatments at $1.25 to $1.75 a bath, $1.50 to $2.00 a colonic irrigation, 1? a tumbler of mineral water. With the whole establishment running, Saratogans expect 25,000 visitors to take...
Although Ford stared the scoring, the forward wall composed of Hallowell, Hovenanian and Holmes was instrumental in placing all of the remaining tallies. Moseley, Ford, and Carr flashed down together in fine style, but couldn't combine to get past the opposing defense more than once. Watts played a spas- modic game at defense making the blunder which was directly responsible for the first goal of the Olympics, yet rallying strongly throughout the game to break up the opposing attack...
...league conductors-Koussevitzky of Boston, Toscanini of New York, Stokowski of Philadelphia-hurry off for vacations after the formal winter season, Stock stays on duty to take his band to Cornell in Iowa, to the Festival at Ann Arbor. Usually thereafter he sails for Germany to bathe at the spas, hunt up new scores. But this year, for the sake of Chicago's musical reputation, he will conduct through half of July in the outdoor arena built by Swift & Co. for the second World's Fair. Between engagements Stock usually goes to his house in northern Wisconsin where...