Word: facials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheek to the base of the skull, the surgeon following it by X ray. When it hits the Gasserian ganglion, he injects scalding water (158°F.), which kills the sensory nerves. Dr. Jaeger has had good results in 27 of 32 tic victims, and some success with facial cancer patients...
Clive Brook plays this pukka sahib version of Marlon Brando with a skill that makes "stiff upper-lip" an entire facial expression...
...month (TIME, Nov. 1). Last week Dr. Peale, on a new daily radio program over NBC (10:05-10:15 a.m., E.S.T.), became the first Protestant minister ever sponsored by a commercial company over a regular nationwide radio network. The sponsor: Doeskin, Inc. ("Makers of so-gentle Doeskin Facial Tissues"). On the program Dr. Peale answers correspondents' questions about religion as well as about their personal problems, an area in which he feels religion is deeply concerned...
...passionate outcries. Needless to say, a mere finger-tapper has become a man representative of the crudest sensibilities. It is now necessary to writhe or "rock" or wriggle one's whole body in a number of strange contortions, and to accompany this motion with a relaxation of the facial muscles and a slight quivering of the lips. This, then, is the first problem that confronts the popular song listener: Learn to express your response through all limbs, trunk, as well as digits, and you will soon surmount the first obstacle on the road to full musical appreciation...
...instance, he cannot tell a dog from a fox, but he can find his way through the city and draw a floor plan of his house from memory. At work he can identify only three colleagues: one very tall and thin, one with two moles, one with a facial tic. The rest tell him their names, point to the tools they want him to pass. In one parlor game, J.S. excels. When the husbands sit under the table and try to identify their wives by their feet, he simply tickles each pair of feet until he recognizes his wife...