Word: lipsticks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clarence Augustus Barbour, who lately resigned as President of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. Dr. Barbour, who was present, was shortly to be inducted as Brown's new president, her tenth in 166 years. The alumni were "trying" him on the charges: 1) "that he wanted to abolish lipstick at Pembroke College [women's part of the university]"; 2) "that he wanted to make Brown an institution where youth could receive an education." Alumnus Rockefeller said: "I'm always glad to be called upon to defend any man against a lawyer. Lawyers, you know, are supposed to spend...
Peter Arno, caricaturist (covers for the New Yorker), has a small daughter, Patricia. Last week she was vaccinated on the sole of her foot. Reason given by her mother, Lois Long ("Lipstick") Arno: ''Even if she becomes a second Lady Godiva, no one will think of finding a vaccination scar there...
...will make no exceptions,'' ran the General's order to the superintendents, "in enforcing the inflexible rule that girls wearing short skirts or silk stockings or using either lipstick or powder are not allowed to enter any public school...
Simultaneously, The American Druggist statisticketed U.S. women: More than half use rouge; 71 in 100 use perfume; 90 in 100 use face powder; 73 in 100 use toilet water; 15 in 100 use lipstick...
...yellowish-white product of whale oil known as spermaceti is at the base of most creams, most lipsticks. Vegetable dyes provide the color. The beet is a common source of red coloring, as is the European plant alkanet, and cochineal, crushed from the dried bodies of the female Coccus Cacti, a Mexican and Central American beetle with a fondness for cactus. Plants and insects yield carminic acid. Aniline will make lipstick indelible; benzoin makes it kissproof...