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Word: cosmeticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEY, BOB, IS MY NOSE SHINY? | 10/3/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

"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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Outing | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

That a group of sane minded men should sit in solemn conclave, discuss, deliberate, and finally pass a bill that dictates what, or what shall not be used to beautify feminine cheeks, is assuredly the height of Babbittism. The news has just arrived from the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COSMETIC URGE | 3/12/1925 | See Source »

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