Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from some outside source. Frequent interruptions from a large and fashionable audience* in the gallery brought the presiding officer's gavel sharply down upon the table. The floor was crowded with august Academicians. Feeling was strong that Professor Lignieres' accusations were unjustified in the face of his evidence. To his recommendation that only children in danger of tuberculosis should be vaccinated, Professor Leon Bernard, head of the tuberculosis clinic, replied, smiling: "There are no children who are not in danger." Cheers. Order...
...smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched it quickly. And her home work room ? hung with the musty odor of thread, cloth and warm flat-irons ? became the core of seven large and busy specialty stores ? hung with the musty odor of face-powder, perfume and new clothes...
Dorian Gray. This is a peculiarly stupid dramatization of Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde's novel, about a youthful rake whose orgies cause a portrait of his pretty face to become more and more hideous. WTallis Clark was good as the Devil...
Pheleas Bedard was a mime as well as a singer. His little face was covered with a tufty white beard above which two tiny eyes were set like shoebuttons. He often lifted his eyebrows in an arch grimace, to show that the rhyming words had a double meaning...
...improved (TIME, April 23). THE HAPPY HUSBAND-Miss Billie Burke proving that, on rare occasions, a woman can forgive her husband for forgetting to be jealous (TIME, May 14). Also: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE ROYAL FAMILY, OUR BETTERS. MUSICAL Look, Listen, Laugh: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Three Musketeers, Present Arms...