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Then there was Rose O'Neill, a plumpish pixy who invented the Kewpie doll. After a wall switch broke, the lights in her house stayed on uninterruptedly for 16 years. Rosie had a favorite cat that entered her bedroom each morning through a private little six-inch door and dutifully placed a dead bird at the foot...
...Emperor was not permitted to see his grandson for 48 hours, but sent traditional gifts-a papier-máché dog with amulet to ward off diseases, a wooden doll to symbolize the coming of a "heavenly child," a seven-inch "sword of protection" wrapped in red brocade. At the Naming Ceremony, a chamberlain presented the Emperor with a specially woven sheet of paper containing the three possible names submitted by the grand chamberlain (final choice: Naruhito Hironomiya). It was almost as if nothing had changed since Akihito himself was born 27 years...
...then threatened her with his revolver; Linda managed to get the gun away from him and throw it into a stream. To win her back from André, the desperate Jaccoud kept writing tear-stained letters and finally offered to divorce his wife and marry his "Poupette" (little doll...
...single name Affandi and admits to a single-minded devotion to art as human expression. Affandi once defined humanism as meaning "all that is right and good to every living creature. When I am making a painting, and suddenly I hear a child that is crying because its doll has fallen into the water, I have to stop painting and help the child first...
...Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (NBC), last week, Actress Marion Davies, "who usually looks a beat 65," appeared as a creamily blonde "25-year-old doll," reported San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Terrence O'Flaherty. How was it done? "A strip of strong, finely woven net is glued along the temple and down almost to the middle of the ear. Tiny hooks are secured to the lace and then the face is made up, hiding everything . . . Rubber bands are looped over the hooks and tied together on top of the head. The tighter the tie, the less the skin dangles...