Word: kissproof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Custodians of the Statue of Liberty were giving the inside of the old lady a coat of hard enamel and planned to enclose the stair in wire netting. Reason: visitors have had a habit of scrawling their names on the wall in kissproof, scrubproof lipstick...
Young Mr. Edison. After the war, Sturges returned to the Maison Desti. He knew a good deal about cosmetics, invented a kissproof lipstick. His mother, in England with a fourth husband, was on the rocks again. She claimed the business; he handed it over and went to work as a free-lance inventor. By the time he was 30 he was about as flat a failure as a man of his age and background could be. Then his appendix ruptured, and saved his life...