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Word: flat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beautification Banned | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...over and beyond the boiling point, who therefore lures away the bewildered fiance, leaving Betty to marry a bashful doctor of twoscore years and more. Ultimately the best friend recaptures the twice-pilfered fiance. Joan Bourdelle, as Betty of the coy knees and bold lips, lends color to otherwise flat drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...MAGIC MOUNTAIN?Thomas Mann?Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Pastorale" by Bach and a Gavotte in B-flat major by Handel will constitute the program to be played at the recital in Appleton Chapel after the service this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organ Recital at Appleton | 6/9/1927 | See Source »

Good News from Heaven Pachelbel Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major Bach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Recital This Morning | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

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