Word: spas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bourboule's entrepreneurs, apparently, are thoroughly untouched by the Poujadists' complaints. They are already planning to enter Pyrame in September race meetings. If he runs well, they intend to open branch spas at the tracks at Maisons-Laffitte and Chantilly...
...with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed...
...begun, naturally, with Old Masters, but the supply was strictly limited. So he went ahead with Gutenberg Bibles, racehorses, Stradivariuses, snuffboxes, stained glass, milk glass, Waterford glass and Venetian glass. He owned four spas, half of Chicago, an inland sea and a buffer state. The trouble was that Gordon's collecting interests quickly flagged, and whenever they did, his personality turned sour. At such times, he would stay slugabed all day, spitefully jolting the market by dumping or buying, and making life difficult for his wife Isabel...
...Springs, N.Mex. (pop. 8,000) has long played second fiddle as a health resort to the Arkansas and Virginia spas of the same name. It has also been confused with Hot Springs, Mont., N.C., S.Dak. and Alaska. Urged on by a hot-eyed radio pressagent, Hot Springs citizens made a bid for clarity and the nation's front pages by voting overwhelmingly to change the town's name this week to Truth or Consequences, N.Mex...