Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Despite the present tendency of the secondary schools to make more advanced Mathematics optional it seems best not to strike it from the required rolls. Mathematical training in thinking can be of vast importance, but unfortunately it has been thought recently to be less and less essential to the makeup of the educated man. One has the feeling, however, that this tendency has grown merely because of the pressure applied by the secondary schools in this direction. Inasmuch as a single requirement without any alternate is extremely distasteful to present ideas of education, it seems wise to allow for Mathematics...
...years ago political pundits seriously doubted whether the Democratic Party could ever be revived. The Madison Square Garden convention ("Twenty-four votes for Underwood") was only a prelude to the disaster that overtook Nominee John William Davis in the 1924 election. The Party's very makeup seemed to preclude the possibility of a comeback. In the South it was the party of the established order. In the North and West it was the party of a few political idealists and of strong but disreputable city machines built around the Irish Catholic and foreign-born slum vote. In the South...
...journalists pushed the point, and Beccali suddenly grinned and blurted out, "The women have their place in Italy and we put them there." Then he subsided and displayed an example of an Italian sunset, only breaking his silence to say briefly that, yes, the Italian women use lipstick and makeup...
Richard Dix makes the whimsy talk in His Greatest Gamble seem less offensive than it really is. Making her cinema debut, Erin O'Brien-Moore may well be successful in Hollywood when subjected to the attentions of skilled makeup artists and costumers...
...Hollywood, Miss Sullavan follows the current fashion for shyness. She keeps an official residence with a secretary to answer telephone calls, lives in a small house with Lisbeth, uses no makeup, dresses in moccasins, old sweater & trousers. She swims 30 times up & down her pool every morning, 30 more times every evening, attends no Hollywood parties even when they are given by Universal's Carl Laemmle Jr. Stubborn about her own affairs, she replies to studio requests to have a crooked tooth in the left side of her mouth straightened by saying she prefers it crooked. Studio officials last...