Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outraged, betrayed, dejectedly off to bed last night, the first Friday in years without having read TIME. Brooding thoughts while seeking escape in sleep: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
Brooklyn, N. Y. > TIME'S paper is still the same. TIME'S type face (except for heads) has not changed; it is still linotype's Old Style #7 set in the same size, 9-point, but in order to improve legibility the lines have been leaded, or spaced out, ½-point wider...
...being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...
...German troops continued to enter and occupy the zones allotted them and Adolf Hitler darted in & out of his new Sudetenland, alternating Sudeten celebrations in his honor with business in Germany. A fine, heavy bouquet of thorny flowers hurled at the Führer by an "admirer" scratched his face...
...that the great hurricane of Europe seems to have blown itself out, there remains one problem that is staring all the countries in the face, one which they cannot avoid no matter how hard they try to look the other way. This is the explosive doctrine of self-determination for racial minorities. It is the doctrine which Hitler has been applying to such advantage for the territorial expansion of Germany, but also the principle which, if strictly applied throughout Europe, would mean the uprising of some thirty million persons who would break up the boundaries of Europe and give back...