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After World War I, when women felt emancipated, they fell hard for the "boyish form" fashion. They tried to obliterate their breasts by binding them with tight brassieres-in many cases making them flabby and pendulous. Dr. LaRoe is a great admirer of the modern brassiere, which combines proper support...
Dr. Moorman discusses notable cases of consumptive genius-or as consumptive Katherine Mansfield called it, "the faint glitter on the plant that the frost has laid a finger on." A year before his death in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "For 14 years I have not had a day'...
"Does he consider such occasional flaunting of authority 'a more healthful' exercise than signing and circulating petitions?"
Reason: it was too hard for teachers to keep an eye on them. Said he, "We have found from long experience that the group shower facilities give much better light and air ... more healthful conditions."
The British War Office last week grimly waited for the arrival of a delegation of determined Scots. The Highland Association was rallying Scottish members of Parliament to protest a recent War Office order: "No more kilts will be issued until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have...