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...thousand, the Mirror treated its "soul-starved" readers to reproductions of the smears. In smelly lunchrooms, dirty washrooms, ugly workrooms, hot bedrooms, thousands of young females forgot their troubles in the decadent thrill of examining, preening and comparing lips. When the winner was announced -a Manhattan nymph, of course, "a dainty little married woman... Christine League"-the Mirror published a close-up photograph of her provocative cupid-bow orifice upraised in "the pose in which Christine's hubby says he likes her best." Another offering the Mirror made last week was a discussion of what constitutes true beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Decadent Demos | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some of the 500-odd "nighthawks" present, Mr. Carroll had filled a wheeled bathtub with champagne made zestier by having a nubile nymph in Carroll's pay (Chorine Joyce Hawley) strip off her chemise and sit naked in the tub as the drinkers dipped their swirling glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: In Manhattan | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

Tonight's program is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Out of the Depths Bach Dainty, Fine, Sweet Nymph Morley Cavalier Song Stanford Mother Moscow Tchesnokov Coronation Scene, from "Beris Godollnov" Moussorgsky Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite, from "Samson" Handel College Songs

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST YARD CONCERT WILL BE GIVEN BY GLEE CLUB TONIGHT | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...Hesitant Nymph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Extravaganza | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

SIMONETTA PERKINS?L. P. Hartley?Putnam ($2). Demonstrating what might conceivably befall a high-caste Boston nymph when exposed to the languorous breath of Venice. Lavinia Johnstone, preserved by her friends as the symbol of their bloodless conventionality, undergoes strange fevers in the presence of a champion gondolier, calls herself Simonetta Perkins to absorb the shock, bids him?late one night?take her up an obscure canal, hesitates, is lost, countermands the order. Author Hartley admires Author Max Beerbohm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Extravaganza | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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