Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese island of Formosa. At the end of the ride, the driver had his three passengers jailed on the charge of not paying their fare. When they resolutely denied the charge, four Japanese policemen held them down in turn while Japanese detectives beat each man in the face. Under this treatment two of the three British tars agreed to sign a declaration that they were guilty. The third, although his jaw was broken, still refused to sign. While police again held him down, a Japanese detective jabbed the point of a fountain pen deeply under the sailor's nails...
...told Havas they could take their choice: either M. Guimier must resign from Havas, or the Havas advertising agency must be unmerged and separated from the Havas news service. How the Premier of the French Republic ever came to have the notion that it is his right to face French journalistic organizations with such alternatives was this week the burning question. Alluding to the fact that the Premier is a Jew, the Royalist newsorgan Action Française blustered, "Can't we even print that Blum has been circumcized...
...hits the audience on the funnybone. At Plumes in the Dust, which presents Actor Henry Hull as Edgar Allan Poe, one of several such shots occurred last week when Poe confessed to Elmira Shelton that he had been drinking, and Elmira, looking with tragic concern at his haggard face, exclaimed: ''Oh, Edgar, will you Take the Pledge...
...London's Medical Exhibition at the new Horticultural Hall were displayed flesh-colored artificial noses and ears of an adhesive, rubber-like substance durable for two months, invented for disfigured victims of automobile accidents. The detachable ears can be washed with the rest of the face, the detachable noses can be blown, powdered...
...borrowed from such assorted owners as J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, Yale University and the Museum of the City of New York another group of 29 historical portraits of first importance. Present were a good Gilbert Stuart Washington of the Vaughan type (red nose and right side of the face), Greuze's famed portrait of Benjamin Franklin, now the property of Mrs. Arthur Lehman, and Benjamin West's unfinished group of the signing of the Treaty of Peace with England in 1783 from the Morgan LIbrary. Interesting because the subject is so seldom seen was a portrait...