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...last month a small young woman whose chest expansion exceeds that of mighty Jack Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Charges | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Syracuse knew that Colgate was no soft soap. Colgate was aware that Syracuse could not lightly be brushed aside. Before they met, each-like a mountaineer's beard-had never been trimmed. After a number of close shaves, Eddie Tryon, "hardest blob in Colgate's tube," squirmed through left tackle, trickled 28 yards for a touchdown. Others followed. Score: Colgate 19, Syracuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...famed is Halfback Eddie Tryon, the hardest blob in Colgate's tube, but he met his match?and who would it be but Dinty Moore, red-haired Lafayette quarterback? Once Dinty Moore intercepted a Tryon pass that would have meant a touchdown, and ran it back to midfield; over and over he gained. Score: Colgate 7; Lafayette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: FOOTBALL: Football: Oct. 26, 1925 | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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