Word: cosmeticized
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In London, burrowing 100 feet under Lombard Street ("Wall Street of England"), sandhogs rooted out hairpins, brooches, combs, sandals, cosmetic bottles, dainty spoons, ranged along a wall which could be identified, by a Claudian coin, as that of a Roman "beauty shoppe" of about 50 A. D.
It made little difference whether Chicagoans jibbed at the thought of Miss Patterson permitting her name and beauty secrets to be exploited thus, or whether they said: "Very pretty and sensible. She is following in the footsteps of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and many another society woman with the best interests...
A member of the Columbia University football team almost caused a riot in that institution's famous library the other day when he produced a powder compact, mirror and all, in the reading room, and proceeded to cast a cosmetic cloud over his manly countenance with the raw materials contained...
THE PLEASURE BUYERS-Arthur Somers Roche - Macmillan ($2.00). The creatures of Author Roche step right out of the more lustrous cosmetic, hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot...
"Put yourself in his place," murmured the Professor to the lethal lackeys crowding about the dais. "Yes, siree. That's my motto. ... So never let blood through the carotid artery [he caressed his colleagues throat] for then he looks as if he had been butchered. Whenever possible, do it...