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...loaded with crates of oranges held up traffic yesterday afternoon, by littering the street with the contents of one of the crates. Impatient motorists waited while the driver hurriedly collected the elusive fruit in a new wash boiler, but John Harvard, who watched the whole procedure, never winked an eyelash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN HARVARD NEVER BATS AN EYE AT MESS OF ORANGES | 3/4/1924 | See Source »

...suggestions practically all he could do. And judging from past experience nothing probably will happen. "Huge Liquo, Plots" are unearthed with a sort of German mechanical regularity. At first one would exclaim. "At last we are to have real enforcement", but the cry of wolf no longer stirs an eyelash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RATIONALISM OR DEFIANCE | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

...Patent Office report, women, during the past ten years, have invented 1,400 different "new and useful articles" ranging from a rotary plow share to an eggbeater. Among the articles are included a cow tail holder, a reinforced wooden bowl for beating eggs in and an artificial eyelash. The variety shows that women's activities in America are spreading out and cover every field of occupation and endeavor. "Children, church and kitchen" are no longer what they used to be. Eventually, perhaps, some clever woman will invent a satisfactory substitute for all three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New and Useful | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...artificial eyelash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: May 19, 1923 | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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