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Word: powderly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Ziegler (baking powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Policies | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Curiously enough, the exemplary, mouselike little Chung-ling Soong turned out to have been getting letters and reading newspapers to some purpose. Her serious, fragile nature (and perhaps the fact that she never uses paint or powder) brought her the love of that high-souled patriotic statesman, the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wise Wives | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...American aristocracy must be nursed with flattery..... The farseeing painter will see that the shades of hair, face and eyes comply with the subject's desires, whether they match the actualities or not. . . . Everything has to be subordinated to the lips and the hue of the face powder. If we get those two right, the rest is easy. ... If I have any difficulty with the eyes, I generally paint them almost blue. One can never go wrong with blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fuchs Fest | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...bastard metal" element, brittle, reddish white, mined in the free state in Saxony, Bohemia, Cornwall. Bolivia. Its best known use is as bismuth subnitrate, a therapeutic for dyspepsia and diarrhea. Taken internally with water the white powder slowly forms nitric acid, a powerful antiseptic. Its physical properties make it astringent, good for nausea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bismuth | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Married. William Ziegler Jr., 35, sportsman, President, Royal Baking Powder Co., nephew and adopted son of the late William Ziegler, "baking powder king"; to Helen Martin Murphy, granddaughter of the late U. S. Senator Edward Murphy Jr. of New York; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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