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These fads may extend to an item of dress or a haircomb, but they usually are limited to an action or a turn of speech. To facilitate the use of a community slang, the Student Handbook this year printed three pages of slang expressions covering more general campus needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in Isolated Community Stamps All Undergraduates with Similarities | 4/13/1951 | See Source »

...George Gershwin: "Long head, shoe-box type. Profile extremely Hittite. Sarsaparilla coloring and a musical haircomb, blown out a bit over ears. Flat cheeks, ironed out, sweeping aggressively into bulging lip and chin. Unanalytical eyes beneath dramatic brows. Smugly aggressive mouth, insensitive, without dubiety. Good-humored, self-confident, able and limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Artist's Victims | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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