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Solicitude. In Salt Lake City, a woman bus-rider accidentally smudged a man's coat with lipstick, later called the Deseret News, asked them to explain the whole thing because he seemed "such a nice man" and she would hate to break up his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...long, long time. Manhattan's bars would stay open until dawn, U.S. roadhouses would be neon-lighted after dark years, and the stiff white shirt front would be back once more, a gleaming and irresistible target for females with an urge to write with lipstick. Between the last tick of 1945 and the first tock of 1946, U.S. citizens would consume enough alcohol to float a rinkful of ice, and the thin, happy bleat of paper horns would echo from time zone to time zone in pleased disregard of the atomic age and all waiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: This Side of Paradise | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Chicago, police found the naked body of a stenographer named Frances Brown lying in a hotel bathroom with a 12-inch bread knife through her neck. Above her, scrawled in lipstick, was the legend: "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I camnot [cannot] control myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rough Week | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...right; 8) her small-mindedness will make her "when I am broke" both certain and soon; 9) I doubt raising her family on her anti-social jealousies will make them any more sensible than those she envies; 10) everything is relative: she wastes what she can on lipstick and cigarets; the Tysons waste what they can on a debut, but the principle is the same; 11) her letter, after all, isn't green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...mounting divorce rate stemmed from many roots, but judges and divorce lawyers who listened cynically to the sing-song of testimony argued that there were only two immediate causes. Said Louisville Circuit Judge Gilbert Burnett: "It's always liquor or lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Liquor & Lipstick | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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