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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schireson, whom the American Medical Association has ostracized for years but whom it could not prevent practicing in Illinois, has straightened Actress Fanny Brice's nose, removed fat from "Peaches" Browning's legs, and sued Lady Diana Manners for payment of work on her face. One of his publicity men once sued him for $50,000 for services rendered and he was in jail for more than one term, according to records of the American Medical Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Surgery | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...Fat dividends have not nourished native usages. Last week Kuokoa, 67-year-old newspaper, was doomed to discontinuance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hawaii Prospers | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...handy with a sword that when a fat old sheik, bargaining over a contract with the French Government, suggests a clause which will present him with the possession of a beautiful American woman, Major Beaujolais dares to refuse with equable asperity. Then there are several reels of sharp sabre-play, sand, and mine explosions. Lastly, the old sheik accepts a contract which omits the tur-pitudinous Santa clause; the lady properly rewards her sabreur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...great vaulted room sways and shivers in the chill light, and the army of tables and chairs, row on row, advances in sinister procession. Bell strikes, two strokes, trembling. Demipest sat down at a table, drew towards him the blue book, fat and loathsome in its emptiness. A completely depitilated proctor advances, passing out examination questions. The indifference of a god. O misery, misery! Question One: cold death, like the shadow of a dark angel's wing, crawls rapidly over the stillness. The fountain-pen, possessed of demons, bounces obscenely on the floor...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

Swami. Munkund LaL Ghosh and Basu Kumar Ragchi, swart swamis, ran a school for ladies in Los Angeles, Calif. They took their pupils to the peak of a neighboring mountain where the atmosphere was such that "heaven vibrations" and "love control" were easy, and fat reduction a frolic. The regular fee was $35, but several clients were moved to rounder numbers. Fortnight ago, the irate husband of one client whipped Swami Lal Ghosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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