Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh newssheet. Frances Heenan Browning, blonde, buxom, onetime darling of the tabloids, had signed a contract to expose her nether limbs to the gaze of Pittsburgh's night-clubbers. Pittsburghers, righteously indignant, "canned" "Peaches," forced the cancellation of the contract. Meanwhile, Dr. Henry J. Schireson, Chicago plastic surgeon, surveyed the aforementioned nether limbs with interest; gossip said that "Peaches" agreed to pay him $10,000 to remove her acid burn scars and bring slender shapeliness to her amply-built legs...
...several years since Mr. Percy Marks, by writing the 'Plastic Age," filled schoolboys with a keen eagerness for going to college and their parents with grave apprehensions about sending them there. Having sought in vain for another theme which would capitalize the furor he had made, the author has gone back to the adventures of the wild Cynthia and the experimentative Carl Peters, whom readers will recall as leaving the campus under rather a cloud. In the new book they are presented five years after...
...young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave read about Tom Swift after his adventures are over and his magic flying machine stabled in the garage, as pursue the maturity of the plastic age settling into stodgy concrete...
Died. William Merrick Sweet, 66, eye surgeon; in Philadelphia, of pneumonia. He experimented successfully with plastic surgery on the eyeball, devised a method of using x-rays to locate foreign bodies in eyes, but gained best repute for the electro-magnet he invented in 1905 to pull iron and steel splinters from eyes...
...college is in the cast does not deprive it of western ruggedness and an open spaces diamond-in-the-rough charm. The profession of literature must have dulled Mr. Marks discernment. Or perhaps fame has rendered him insensible to the gradations and intricacies of college life. Surely "The Plastic Age" was never like this...