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...Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week of Adolf Hitler, No. I Brown Shirt Fascist (TIME...
...Silverspot, matriarch of wall-eye pike, was safe at the hatchery. She had been missing for two years. Hatchery men had thought she was dead of old age or had been a fisherman's prize 25-lb. catch. Fish officials hurried to Bemidji, found her swimming in a tub. They took her picture as Minnesota's mother of millions...
...painted white, sailors called it the "bean blower" and scornfully predicted that it would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight steel tub full of molten metal-"Wood's metal" (tin, lead, and bismuth) which melts at 120°. It is wedged at the deck with hard rubber...
...President was convulsed with laughter by the bathing arrangements in his room. A large green tub partly in the room and partly built into the wall. Over this is a mezzanine gallery where he could have musicians play while he bathed! But the President had his clothes pressed there instead...
...society. More interested in the S.S. Lafayette herself, they saw a ship sail into New York harbor last week which gives first-class comfort in all but name in "cabin class" cabins. By no means every first-class liner has the major "American feature" of the Lafayette: a private tub or shower bath with every stateroom...