Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ideal of Service. In Hastings, Neb., the Chamber of Commerce got a simple, heart-warming request: "Please send me all the information you can. Thank...
Mindful of the many broken-nosed sol diers now getting straightened up for civil ian life, Dr. Daley reiterated (in the Archives of Otolaryngology} one of his favorite doctrines : when it comes to noses, nature knows best. Many a far-from-ideal nose, says he, should be left as it is. It may be the oddly-shaped nose, that gives character to the whole face. A homely person who blames all his homeliness on his nose may find that a nicer new one calls attention to his small eyes or his snaggle teeth...
...help him decide whether a patient is really nasally desperate, Dr. Daley makes photographs from several angles, draws mysterious lines on the pictures and compares them with similar lines drawn on a sketch of an ideal face. Then he plans a compromise-somewhere between the patient's original nose and the ideal. Finally he tries it out on a wax cast. In the end, a patient who started with a broad, concave, bulbous-tipped nose will turn into no beauty: he will merely get a nose that is a little less broad, a little less concave, a little less...
...seems to me that the whole combined report [TIME, Sept. 10] could be replaced by a simple statement that, like the rest of the U.S., the Hawaiian commands and personnel were on weekends and binges and the Japs simply picked the ideal time for their dirty work...
Ilka Chase, professional wit and author (In Bed We Cry), advised women to marry younger men, explained: "Men, poor things, age so quickly after they're married. . . . The older wife is the ideal combination of what every boy craves: she's mother-wife-mistress, the 3-in-1 bargain package...