Word: facials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another work of great interest is the "Flower Vendor" by Raphael Soyer. It gives a scene of typical New York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...
Awarded. To Dr. George Morris Dorrance, famed Philadelphia facial surgeon and board chairman of Campbell Soup Co.: the Poor Richard medal of achievement; in Philadelphia...
...cause and prevention of such facial fluttering caused the longtime friends to disagree before the whole convention of the American Academy of Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology in Manhattan last week. Dr. Sullivan declared that "these movements were due to the fact that the transplants were made too soon, that is, when the nerve cells of the injured facial nerve were in a state of physiological unbalance with degeneration and healing going on at the same time. When the paralysis immediately follows a mastoid operation, the nerve may be under pressure and should be exposed at once. When the nerve is destroyed sufficiently...
...Tickle objected to any delay of the operation. Grimacing, said he, "was due to a splitting of the neurofibrils in the graft. A lapse of time for degeneration of the facial nerve does not help. I have found a large proportion of cases of spasm where the grafting took place six months or more after injury...
Leaving victims of facial palsy to struggle within the coils of this expert dissension, the Eye, Ear & Throat specialists turned their attention to those perennially interesting individuals who talk with deep-throated belches. They have lost their vocal cords usually as result of cancer or accident. Dr. William Wallace Morrison of Manhattan, who has taught many to talk, presented some prize scholars who belong to the Lost Cord League, and explained his methods. The voiceless patient first learns to swallow air. This he does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates...