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...manufacturers of the largest-selling, best-known mascara in the world, Maybelline, an absolutely harmless, non-smarting eyelash darkener that contains no dye or aniline derivative, we have suffered untold damage to our old established business by the ambiguous publicity given out concerning the Tugwell bill. In a recent issue of the Paramount Newsreel, Professor Tugwell told a truly appalling tale of injuries caused by a poisonous preparation, but neglected to give its name as "Lash-Lure" or to state that it was a dye, merely calling it an eyelash "beautifier," and concluding his speech with the dreadful remark, "This...
...last week, this time not on the ragged Eastern Shore but in the proud old city of Baltimore. The Baltimore Civic Opera Company was responsible when it put on a one-act affair called Swing Low. In it Tenor A. Roy Williams, blacked up as a Negro, was making harmless love to Soprano Elsie Craft (also in blackface) when an operatic mob appeared to drag him offstage to a hanging...
...object of being an interest. Through it they escape the reproach of being indifferent, the rigours of participation in a live, unhypothetical movement, and they gain not only honour and glory but a pleasant pastime as well. Parcuis and deans smile benignantly on them, for the occupation is warranted harmless and money refunded if it leads to being arrested while picketing a strike...
...these reasons one may well wish that the habit be continued, even though its paragon pass into limbo. It may be charged with having an anaesthetic tendency; a Marxist might even call it an opiate of the upper classes. But from this comes its virtue of being harmless, its saving grace; deans, parents, all thinking people can say of it, as they say of the abolition of religion, what can take its place to keep people out of mischief? How right they...
Announcing New York's ban. Health Commissioner Wynne thoughtfully reminded women & girls who insist on darkening their brows and lashes that they may still enjoy the harmless though perishable effects of eyebrow pencils or mascara...