Word: cupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn Words." The last named is- to use its own theory illustratively -deluciatingly quippant...
...titles with which the articles are captioned give some idea of the way in which this magazine represents student life in America: "Dan Cupid in the Colleges." "Tipplers and Toddlers." "The Hot Date and the O. F. G." "Girls Be yourself." Tae stories themselves are full of cheap witticisms and the coarse sensationalism usually confined to yellow journals and moving pictures. The coeducational feature is stressed to the limit, and beyond. Just what excuse there is for the publication of such a magazine it seems hard to imagine. If people must write about colleges why not do it truthfully...