Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more shocking news has come to Boston than that featured upon the front page of the Transcript last night. Mary and her little lamb are pure myth...
Cosmetics. "The cosmetic business has been a perfectly reputable business, but in the absence of a law controlling it [the Pure Food & Drug Act is not specific enough] a number of scamps have crept into the business." Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle removers contain ammoniated mercury, a caustic poison that eats the skin. If a substance is powerful enough to dissolve hair, it is powerful enough to dissolve skin. Using the x-ray to remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain...
...Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., one E. L. Gaylor, student in physiology, breathed pure oxygen as hard as he could for six minutes, saturating his lungs with the gas. One last big lungful he then held, for 14 min., 2 sec.-long enough for a police-man to walk one mile. The previous breath-holding record is reported to have been approximately ten minutes, at the University of California, in 1916. Were Breather Gaylor to attempt living in an atmosphere surcharged with pure oxygen he would soon become drowsy, lose appetite, weight, and finding real difficulty in breathing, he would turn...
...World-famed satirical clowns. Living pure-bred stallions driven to music and songs of Asiatic origin. Eccentrics and acrobats. The Brothers Krolikov Choir, of which one is a sister...
...Palm Beach. The most credible thing about it is the rumor that it was produced by the sons of the author, Mrs. Sarah Ellis Hyman, as a tribute to their mother. Electra. Actress Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother, Clytemnestra. Simultaneously, hard by Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress and her paramour were on trial for their...