Word: lipsticking
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...toothpowder riches (Dr. Lyon's, inherited from her late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...
...advertising mind-as represented in New York's McCann-Erickson agency-this saccharine ditty from the 1926 hit parade recently had a cataclysmic effect. For weeks the agency had been searching its accounts for a product that could be used as a tie-in to promote a lipstick and nail polish called "Ultra Violet," put out by Manhattan's Revlon Products Corp. It had also been worrying over the same sort of thing for Columbia Recording Corp.'s Dinah Shore. Then several of its geniuses remembered the old song. It was a natch. Lyric writers changed...
...Revlon, which sells more lipstick and nail polish (other products: powder, rouge) than anyone else, all this was just new gilt on an old lily. When they founded Revlon in a $25-a-month office in 1932, Brothers Charlie, Martin and Joe Revlon decided to capitalize on names, beginning with their own. They had another cardinal principle: a woman's most important points, unless she's in a bathing suit, are her eyes, lips, hair and hands...
...Next it was assault, then murder. Bill swore he had bawled George out and written him notes begging him to straighten up, get out of town, get lost in the river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert forger...
After throwing a quick smile to the strongly pro-Budge crowd of 9,000 in the stands, Champion Bobby Riggs marched out of the stadium with his blonde wife on his arm and lipstick on his face. His week's work had been worth $3,100 in prize money, plus a $500 bet he won on himself...