Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bath Iron Works: $9,626,000 for two destroyers...
Says Anor about her father: he has "a marverlas degestion," laughs at his own jokes, "is very fond of taking a bath as his exercise," can't write without smoking. His hobbies are playing with candle wax, coloring picture books, "smoking even...
...Largest and swankiest spa in England is the venerable town of Bath, 107 miles from London. Bath's principal claims to fame are its Roman remains, its Georgian house-fronts, and its spring water. Gouty Britishers have drunk and dunked themselves in Bath's water since the time of the Roman Empire. Not so well known as Bath's baths, but no less remarkable, is Bath's Pump Room Orchestra, a small 18-man group, which is today the oldest established orchestra in the British Empire...
Founded by England's famous dandy and fashion arbiter, Richard ("Beau") Nash, the Pump Room Orchestra (now conducted by handsome Maurice Miles) has given concerts in Bath's Pump Room for 234 uninterrupted years. Last week word leaked out that the famous Pump Room Orchestra was to be disbanded. Reason: for its size, Bath's orchestra had set a new record in box-office flops. This year's expected deficit...
Crusty, cold-bath-and-calisthenics-loving James Oliver perfected the "Oliver Chilled Plow" in 1868. Although the first metal plow had been made in 1837, Oliver's chilled cast-iron model was such an improvement that he has been regarded ever since as the father of the modern plow. Last week Oliver Farm Equipment Co. of South Bend, Ind. proudly announced the "Raydex" base and point, "greatest advance in plow-making" since 1868-the first entirely machine-made plow base...