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Word: lipsticks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lena carries no lipstick. Lena has not read much. But she is healthy and capable. She has the humor and hardihood of people to whom pleasure and pain are natural phenomena, not nervous problems. The young man is going to be a doctor, not a banker or poet, so after his junior year at Princeton he asks Lena Wilson and she accepts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nice People | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Home. George Herman Ruth, variously known as the Home Run King, the Biffing Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the Mogul of Mayhem, etc., does poorly in a film recounting the life story of a baseball player. Mr. Ruth is not even qualified to hold a cinema actor's lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Ivory-white, lipstick-red, and a suave, tawny brown are the colors of Florence Jones. These were colors good enough for smart, expatriate Americans of both hemispheres who discovered "Florence" making excellent waffles in the Rue Pigale some four years ago. Her waffles became a fad, and so many rich waffle eaters washed the golden morsels down with amber champagne that, today, Florence Jones te more purseful than many of her clients. The fact that this handsome Negress, genuinely from Harlem, keeps the smartest boite de nuit* in Paris, was evident again last week, when His Royal Highness, 27-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chez Florence | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...does not use rouge, but a lipstick always," said Mme. Simone Lahovary, attendant upon Queen Marie, of Her Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Royalty Rambles | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

That is the point of the whole thing. Any playwright who must get his laughs from a revolver explosion, a smear of lipstick on the temple, and a fall on a couch that looks like a juggler getting ready to spin a barrel on his feet is no safe playmate for even the best stockcompany. It is to be supposed that at least two happy couples were united before the play closed: thereof the chronicler telleth not. In fact, he is thinking of writing a book called "Third Acts, by one who has never been there...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

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