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Word: makeups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like: a, very low-necked dresses? b, perfume? c, adornments in the hair? d, imitation jewelry? e, evident makeup? f, bright red nails? g, flat-heeled shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothes Make the Woman, Says Vogue; Turns to Crimson for Ideas on Dress | 9/28/1935 | See Source »

...Technology. He set up elaborate equipment on which 700 motormen were tested for reaction time, coordination, attention, vision, etc. But the results did not account for all the difference between high-accident and low-accident men. An elusive factor in "accident-proneness" seemed to be quirks in the psychic makeup. One motorman had taken $1 from the fares and given it to a passenger whose hand had been caught in the door. When accused of this he had at first denied the facts, then sullenly insisted that he had not really stolen the dollar since he was saving trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Complexes | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

With the three bewhiskered judges at attention last week. Prisoner Warner cried: "Everything is absolutely chaste in my dance! I am covered from head to foot with makeup paint, and I wore an invisible lavender cloth. Gentlemen, I serve Art and nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Population v. Poetess | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...wife and our 12-year-old daughter. Women, after beholding such indecency, don't want to have children. It is wrong to say, as Maitre Torres has said, that she dances like a statue. Statues do not undress. She did. She may have been covered with makeup but she wore virtually nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Population v. Poetess | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...Paris thrifty Miss Warner returned with her sister-manager to await the verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Population v. Poetess | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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