Betty B.
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3,598 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The gowns worn by the dancers are as a roll of silk or filmy chiffon.
The stuffs are so sheer that a full dress weighs less than a pound, but that dress is worth more than its weight in gold.
If anyone should doubt this, here are the figures.
An ounce of gold is worth twenty dollars, and a pound, avoirdupois, would be sixteen times that, or three hundred and twenty dollars.
Many of the gowns seen on this floor every night cost more, and yet one might squeeze them up in one hand and ram them into a tumbler.
Nevertheless, some of the girls on this ship don a new dress every evening.
But all this is vanity.
In the words of King David,
Yea, it is lighter than vanity.
Christopher Columbus, with the odor of the salt junk and slum gullion of four centuries ago in his nostrils, would be more interested in the housekeeping arrangements of this mighty ocean hotel.
I shall take his spirit with me down a half-dozen stories and show him the kitchens, the butchers and the bakers, and the storerooms filled with supplies enough to feed fat these five thousand people who have brought their greedy stomachs aboard.
I have not space to tell how Columbus cooked for his men, but the ranges for preparing the chops and the steaks on this vessel are as big as a dining table seating a dozen, and are kept red-hot by electricity.
In addition, there are the open fires for cooking roasts and game upon spits, as it was done by Robin Hood and his band in Sherwood Forest before the days of Columbus, and there are great steel kettles for soup, each of which holds as much as a bathtub
and breathes out steam like a factory the spirit of columbus would see a hundred lamb chops on the stove at one time and in the bake shops biscuits and rolls shoveled out of ovens into baskets each holding four bushels the majestic cooks six thousand pounds of meat every day it bakes its own bread mixing a barrel of flour at a kneading and it cuts the bread by machinery so fast that one loaf of seventy-two slices was chopped up in just thirty seconds
by the ticks of my watch.
I despair of describing the storerooms.
One of them has 6,000 wild birds hung up in a temperature 12 degrees below freezing.
As I shivered among them, the steward told me he had on hand 1,000 quail, 1,000 pheasants, and 500 snipe.
His partridges number 750, to say nothing of 500 wild ducks, ptarmigan, and grouse, and genuine Egyptian quail,
which i dare say are of the same family as those which fed the israelites in their sinai wanderings i had one of these quail for breakfast this morning it made me think of a reed bird it was about as big as the hand of a baby but let us leave the kitchens and give the ghost of columbus a look at the linen rooms the weekly laundry of a ship like this would cover the santa maria so that it would be only a needle in a haystack of linen if it were spread out on the fields of your farm it would cover every inch of fifty acres
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