Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small, wiry man with the careworn face was happy. He had lived down his onetime nickname, "Nervous Nelly." Now the whole world knew him as the author of The Multilateral Treaty to Renounce War as an Instrument of National Policy. He has just received, last week, the unanimous promises to sign his treaty of the following nations: Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, India, Rumania, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Irish Free State.* Never before had so many nations bound themselves with the U. S. to take a momentous step...
British Justification. It is not suppositious but certain that if Britain's King-Emperor ever tries to nullify the powers and liberties of his subjects, as did King Fuad last week, he will face instant Revolution...
Alluringly foreign are the names of precious unguents and their makers. But deep hidden under the black-bakelite boudoir jars of Terri's "Exquisite Face Powder" one may find the name of Terence Ryan, its maker. And famed Madame Helena Rubinstein is also called Mrs. Edward Titus. Laden with scents and sounds of the Orient, her most esoteric triumphs reach Manhattan from no more distant point than her factory on Long Island...
...Other Grandmama does not endorse face creams, hair nets, whatnots. She is not photographed. Obscure and lonely, she lives in a small villa near Florence, forgotten, poor, and seldom addressed as "Your Majesty...
...fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face, brought her out of the yawn which had lasted 30 minutes...