Word: cupidities
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...that it has ever failed to give one one's money's worth, but this week the Metropolitan gives interest--huge interest--in that Cupid-like "Barnum of Bandland," the rotund Paul Whiteman. But it has long been our opinion that Paul not only possesses his share of avoirdupois but also a proportionate amount or that something known as "it." To say the least, he and his music fill the mammoth Met stage as it has never been filled before with beats and throbs and sobs of soulful syncopation. In fact, Paul, surrounded by a more admirable bevy of beauties...
...Hubbard '30 stated that the affirmative side was not advocating inter- marriage, but that it did declare that any legal prohibition against intermarriage should be removed. "They say that Cupid is blind, very probably color-blind." He advocated social intermixing as broadening our civilization...
Tattooing. Women, and men too, who have had their cheeks tattooed a permanent pink and their lips scarred into a stiff cupid's bow have become problems to the physician. The needles with which the tattooer punctures his customer's flesh are often unsterilized, the dyes that he soaks into the needle-pits polluted. Frequent results: gangrene, tetanus (lockjaw), leprosy, amputation, tuberculosis, blood poisoning.?Marvin D. Shie of Cleveland...
...quickly eclipse them and they will find themselves stuffed in a cupboard in a dark corner labelled "consort". No, the days when one married a kingdom and only incidentally a lady are gone forever. Moreover it has become customary in these affairs of late to secure the services of Cupid rather than those of the minister of state as marriage broker. But of course marital emancipation of royalty has only crept in with national indifference as to the outcome. It really doesn't matter very much who a prince marries as long as she is amiable and takes a good...
...washrooms, ugly workrooms, hot bedrooms, thousands of young females forgot their troubles in the decadent thrill of examining, preening and comparing lips. When the winner was announced -a Manhattan nymph, of course, "a dainty little married woman... Christine League"-the Mirror published a close-up photograph of her provocative cupid-bow orifice upraised in "the pose in which Christine's hubby says he likes her best." Another offering the Mirror made last week was a discussion of what constitutes true beauty in the female form. The idea the editors tried to get across was that "flat flappers...