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With these words, one Betty Honeyman of the Bronx, who has posed in many an artist's studio, in various stages of dress, broke into the news last week. She had posed for the first cigaret advertisement ever to appear in a U. S. publication showing a woman in the act of smoking...
Signor Benito Mussolini, The Head of the State, The Leader of Fascismo, permitted a fair trial last week to onetime Socialist. Deputy Tito Zaniboni (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 et seq.) who was arrested at his hotel bedroom window calmly puffing a cigaret and training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death...
Matinee Ladies (May McAvoy, Malcolm McGregor). Cradle-snatchers again. A young man, nowadays, seems to pay as inevitably as the harassed heroines of a decade ago. At a roadhouse, the hero, law-student, jigs with women too old to trade in their own personality. But he loves the cigaret girl. The villain lures her to a boathouse, where, once in his fell clutches, who can say what fearsome fate is in store? Just when the audience might, if it cared, drop out of its seats because of the horrible suspense, the hero romps along with his right uppercut in good...
...scarcely 20 years old. Before 1907 the housewife dragged a broom across the carpet nap or, when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them on the clothesline...
...possible that a magazine founded (in 1883) to give "authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public with pawky promises...