Word: complexion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...queen of the U.S. beauty business' billion-dollar-a-year empire is a short (4 ft. 10 in.), plump woman of 71 with a youthful complexion. When she is at work in her eight-story Fifth Avenue salon, she is Helena Rubinstein. At home, in her 26-room, three-floor Park Avenue apartment, crammed with about $1,000,000 worth of paintings (Matisse, Picasso, Dufy, etc.) and art treasures, she likes to be called Princess Gourielli (her husband is a Georgian nobleman turned businessman...
...makeup, and made a Contour-Lift Film designed to firm up the jowls (at $5 a jar). Now & then, the FTC cracked down on her, ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth, or that the egg content of her Egg Complexion Soap had any beneficial effect on the skin. She altered her titles to conform, but feared the FTC less than her archrival Elizabeth Arden, who paid $50,000 a year to hire away Rubinstein's general manaager. Rubinstein got revenge by hiring Arden's ex-husband to take...
...curriculum and the academic subjects are all important and that they can learn more in theclassroom that matters than outside it. This tends to leave the initiative, in college journalism, to those who have some ideological axe to grind, and may be one partial explanation for the Stalinoid complexion of a number of college papers (of course matters stand differently where there is a journalism school, when work on the college paper is a form of academic activity). In other words, what I find among students here is that they don't take journalism, as such, seriously, or at least...
...like Yale, been consistently Republican in complexion. This year, however, it endorsed Adlai Stevenson for the presidency, but then hopped around to vote for Richard Nixon for vice-president. Apparently the intellectual appeal of Stevenson was an over-riding factor...
...anything in Ohio this year, but his influence is the key to the state's Senatorial election. Twelve years of frenzied but fruitless support of Taft as its favorite-son candidate for President has made the Senator a martyred hero in the state. Although Ohio's economic and racial complexion would normally veer the state toward liberalism, this Taft fixation has given Ohio's politics a strangely conservative tinge. Senator John Bricher's chances for reelection depend to a great extent on his ability to take advantage of the senior Senator's popularity...