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Floor Shows. Closed is Smart Showman Billy Rose's famed Casa Manana, but sparkling with the brightest floor show in town is his Diamond Horseshoe. In a room decked out with expertly hideous. Mauve Decade decor, on a tiny stage above a tremendous bar, the Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...prolonged probing of a dentist's drill on a bare nerve is Tic Douloureux, or facial neuralgia, a disease which attacks the nerve tract of cheeks, mouth and tongue. Neuralgia spasms seldom last longer than two minutes, often twist a patient's face into a hideous grimace of agony. Usually persons over 40 years old are victims of the disease, and at first attacks may occur no more than twice a year. Later they return several times a day with increasing severity until sufferers long for death as the only relief from their pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B1 for Tic | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Blossom Time, a perennial, was back on Broadway for the first time since 1931. The old-fashioned operetta, full of hideous buffoonery, has a score-based on some of Franz Schubert's loveliest melodies-as appealing as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comebacks | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...nominations: the only possibility is Hideous Hitler. I hate his stinking guts, but 1938 was his-if there be any argument, let it come from Sucker Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...clumsy, hideous, black, panting, grinning, sly, besotted, sensual, shameless...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

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