Word: facials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exquisitely painful as the prolonged probing of a dentist's drill on a bare nerve is Tic Douloureux, or facial neuralgia, a disease which attacks the nerve tract of cheeks, mouth and tongue. Neuralgia spasms seldom last longer than two minutes, often twist a patient's face into a hideous grimace of agony. Usually persons over 40 years old are victims of the disease, and at first attacks may occur no more than twice a year. Later they return several times a day with increasing severity until sufferers long for death as the only relief from their pain...
...knows the cause of facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...
After postulating that facial characteristics set the Jews apart, that they are "a people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all scientists who labor under the delusion that only negative findings are sound." Says...
...race is a group of people who, for the most part, resemble one another in such things as hair, eye and skin color; stature; facial form; size and shape of head. A national population may be a confusing potpourri of many races and racial blends, and the most typical representatives of one race may be scattered among many nations. A specialist in racial anthropology must track down the basic racial features and distinguish them in their jumbled context...
...LOEWS STATE AND ORPHEUM--One must concede Mickey Rooney a moral triumph for toning down his elaborate facial contortions, but his tolerably effective portrayal of "Huckleberry Finn" does not save the film as a whole from being a tedious, uninspired production. What little zest remains of the hilarious Mark Twain story is submerged under the Negro Jim's long harangues flash of humor arouse the spectator's interest, as, for example, when the King and Huckleberry give a delicious parody on Romeo and Juliet. But such antics are all too infrequent, and even the melodramatic steamboat-race climax fails...