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True it certainly is that many American women seem to have contributed overmuch to the $1,825,000,000 which go to make up the cosmetic bill, but it is as impossible to prove that to them as it is to prove to the Navy Department that $740,000,000...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARSHIPS AND WARPAINT | 2/18/1928 | See Source »

Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari made by an Italian woman of the 17th Century was a favorite cosmetic for women. It was a colorless, tasteless liquid, kept on women's dressing tables. After some 600 affectionate husbands of gaddy wives had died with terrible stomach gripes, authorities discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Manna | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Cosmetics. "The cosmetic business has been a perfectly reputable business, but in the absence of a law controlling it [the Pure Food & Drug Act is not specific enough] a number of scamps have crept into the business." Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

The Arabian Nightmare is frankly a "fantastic comedy" (i.e. farce) of two variously aged spinstresses who quit Amesbury, Mass., for a glimpse of sheiks and harems in the desert. There they are tumbled about by means of a superabundance of stage gags so long standardized that the Manhattan first nighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Their Rumanian Majesties removed from Bucharest, last week, to Bled, the summer capital of Yugoslavia. There, Queen Marie of Rumania settled down for a visit with her daughter, young Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. "The mother-in-law of the Balkans," 51, will visit in September, it was announced, that nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Visiting | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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