Word: powders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saintly Moon Lady, separated from her pious young son by invading Tartars, is hustled offstage before she can become tiresome. Her place is taken by a crew of thieves, usurers, pimps and powder faces (prostitutes) who add up to a kind of road-company Decameron. The fat lecher Pi, for instance, lusts after the beautiful Silver Vase, a pubescent virgin being carefully tended by Lady Li, a flower-garden proprietor (brothelkeeper). Cash-and-Carry, a young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving...
Vermont conditions are as follows: East Burke, Burke Mt. 2 to 6 base, 3 packed powder, skiing fair to good. All lifts operating; Shelburne, Killington Basin, 6 to 10, one new powder, poor to fair; Stowe, Mt. Mansfield, 12 to 24, 2 new powder, fair to good...
Conditions reported elsewhere are Waitsfield, Mad River Glen, 5 to 15, one new powder, fair to good lower; Warren, Sugarbush Valley, 7 to 20, 3 powder, fair to good. Lifts start daily operation Saturday...
...concluded Dr. Knox, for the medical profession to begin an educational campaign on the harmful effects of excess exposure to sun, and advocate use of preparations to ward off both premature aging of the skin and cancer. Blondes, he suggested, can keep that schoolgirl complexion longer if they use powder and makeup bases with built-in chemical sun screens. It was with no hint of boasting that Dallas' Dr. James B. Howell noted: "Texans have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the population of any state...
Unlike Campbell, General Foods has never had any strong consumer identification as a company, keeps its name in small print on packages. "We felt too much close association would be bad," says Mortimer. "A woman may use Swans Down cake mix but think Calumet baking powder is for the birds." On the other hand, the company yearns for the sort of public image built up by competitor General Mills, is now trying to create that image by publicizing the General Foods Kitchens...