Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman of a New York state commission to develop Saratoga Springs as a moderate-priced health resort is Bernard Mannes Baruch, Manhattan financier-philanthropist. His father, Dr. Simon B. Baruch of Camden, S. C., was one of the first to recognize Saratoga water's medicinal value. Last week Commissioner Baruch and a committee of U. S. physicians began a study tour of the spas of Germany, beginning at Bad Kissingen, Bavaria...
Albert of Belgium swam incognito last week at Mariakerke (best Belgian bathing resort), was robbed of gold watch, gold penknife, wallet containing 500 francs; found his clothes tied in knots when he returned...
Vesuvius's eruption last week (see p. 27) speeded the translation and reporting of wall signs in Pompeii, which diggers are still clearing of the ashes poured on that pleasure resort by the volcano in A. D. 79. The signs are painted on the walls and are chiefly electioneering vaunts. Examples: ''Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk"; "If you care for good bread and better plays, vote for Cleonius Prisus"; ''Vote for Julius Politius, a man as handsome as the god Apollo...
...exonerated from that slightly belittling appellation, a crammer, and those who are above such things might spend the time they use in rationalizing their stooping to an action unbecoming in one of high ideals to better advantage. In other words, whether we will or not most of us resort, to cramming. The queer point is that, despite its standardized list of bad points, cramming succeeds to a noticeable extent...
...Seven accepted promptly. Though the oil production of Colorado is comparatively trivial (only about 7,500 barrels per day), that State's Democratic Gov. William H. Adams (centre figure, front cover) was an understanding host to the other executives and oilmen arriving at his State's famed resort. Gov. Adams, now 67, has grown grey and wrinkled in the service of Colorado. For 38 years he was a State Senator...