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Word: cosmeticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somehow, the tricky juggling of these two simultaneous stories manages to avoid the awful fate it deserves. The somehow is an out & out triumph of Greer Carson's versatility as an actress. Reverting in dizzy succession from grandmother to bride to grandmother, she keeps the character of Mrs. Parkington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Amorous, ambitious Devon Elliott has rocketed from a shelf of cosmetic stink pots in a cheap Greenwich Village rented room to the ownership of Devonshire House, a cosmetic corporation whose function is thinking up things that women didn't know they desperately needed. Devonshire House has branches in 13...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

"Tim," cries Devon when he tells her, "do you love me?" He does, right away. But it's no use. Tim leaves the cosmetic traffic for his laboratory, and Devon to a refugee satyr named Kurt who suffers from moral arthritis. Just as love is about to petrify into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Alert to the urgency of beating a strategic retreat back to the merchandising methods of a century ago, 17-year-old Independent Grocers Alliance has ready for its 5,000 independent grocers a 70-item drug and cosmetic line. To catch the wartime gardener, I.G.A. stores will soon sell fertilizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retreat for Survival | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Blonde, brown-eyed Jackie Cochran got into almost everything early. At four she was orphaned, at 14 she was an experienced beauty-parlor operator, at 24 she was about to enter the London-Melbourne race as the only U.S. woman flyer (she only made Bucharest). Today she is not quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Women in War | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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