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Rouge, powder, lipstick were sponsored as simples for sanity, last week, by Dr. Edgar George Thomssen at the 34th annual convention of the American manufacturers of toilet articles, at Atlantic City, N. J. An approving audience heard about insane women led back to lucid normality by being given cosmetics to play with. Those more scientifically-minded pointed to the fact that if during the deep depressions and maniac excitements of insanity, patients are oblivious of their appearance, become dirty, disorderly, slovenly when left to themselves, they would be equally oblivious of the daintiest creams and cosmetics. Only when the psychotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cosmetics | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...however, the city fathers of Manhattan voted to make Park Avenue longer by smoothing the cobbles in front of the Vanderbilt Hotel and rechristening two blocks of lowly Fourth Avenue. Park Avenue thus began at 32nd Street instead of at 34th Street, and because counting begins at "one," the city fathers told Mrs. Bacon that her number must now be "five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One to Five | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...draw and the third Capablanca won. The games that followed were all played with a Queen's Gambit and most of them were drawn; but Capablanca won the 7th and the 29th, Alekhine the 11th, 12th and 32nd. Last week the two men sat down to play the 34th game. Capablanca, with the score 5-3 against him, looked sulky. The Russian, with one game to win, looked meditative & nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capablanca Bested | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

When play ended on the first night of the 34th game, Alekhine had an advantage of one pawn; a blocked pawn on the queen's rook file. Play began the next night with the 41st move. On the 47th, both queens fell, leaving Alekhine with a rook, four pawns and the king. Capablanca refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capablanca Bested | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...play was written by Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins Sullivan, who was born in Nebraska. The coaching of this 34th production of the Dramatic Club was done by Edward Massey '15, who has directed many successful plays at the University in former years. Mr. Massey was a very active character artist as an undergraduate, and has divided his time since graduation directing plays in New since graduation directing plays in New York and at Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. D. C. WILL RAISE CURTAIN ON FALL PRODUCT TONIGHT | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

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