Word: facial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painstaking Marxist style. "I find that my ancestors were Alsatians, which means that they were French. I was brought up as a Frenchman. I attended French schools, my friends were French, I have held official positions. ... I speak French perfectly and without a trace of foreign accent; even my facial features are free of particularly conspicuous racial traits. I am entitled to consider myself assimilated, and I feel sure that there is no element, however subtle, of the French spirit, French honor or French culture which is alien to me. Yet, though I feel myself to be genuinely French...
Dead or alive, the vast majority of criminals are identified by facial appearance and fingerprints. But the Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery has been shown cases where tinkering with bones and flesh has completely altered facial appearance. And smart wrongdoers like the late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may mutilate their fingertips with acid or otherwise until comparison with filed prints is highly difficult if not impossible. Dillinger and Van Meter did not succeed in preventing identification, but medical men agree that burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton...
...means of a shaving "clinic," organized among the Fellows of Mellon Institute. The findings are soon to be published in full. . . . According to these results the shaving problems of different individuals vary in character, but correct technics benefit all shavers. These include the taking of sufficient time for facial preparation before shaving (two minutes is the minimum time . . . ); shaving with a slanting stroke as far as possible; mixing of a little soap with latherless cream if the latter is the medium preferred by the shaver; shaving with the blade tilted toward the face when the blade is new and/or sharp...
...pocus which surrounds the whole beauty industry was what guests saw at his studio last week. There was a spectroscopic contraption which, since Factor's speciality is "color harmony guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled...
...consultations cr from some supposedly enlightened relative or neighbor. How much harm may be done in this manner was perhaps best demonstrated by the 13-year-old, slightly retarded girl who was wheeled into the office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with the most pitiful facial expression that can be imagined. When questioned as to her complaint, she stated whiningly: 'I have an auriculo-valvular disease,' a 'diagnosis' which, in conjunction with the attending parental apprehensions, had made a chronic invalid of the child...