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Word: bleaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mail Order House, Curio Products Company and White Line, will discontinue representing that Poreen Ointment, La Jac Lovin' Pink Cream for Dark Skins or La Jac Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin foods or skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone or High John the Conqueror Root and other similar products bring good luck, love, romance, power, life, inspiration, easy money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Not Irresistible | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Lily (5) was one of the first ladies in San Francisco to try the advantages of a peroxide bleach. Her husband objected, so as a woman of spirit she shaved her head and ordered a trunkful of wigs, red, green, blue, one to match each of her gowns. Her husband and father both died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lily the Vamp | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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