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...What is a face?" Williams wrote. "What has it always been, even to the remotest savagery? A battleground. Slash it with sharp instruments, rub ashes into the wound to make a keloid; daub it with clays, paint it with berry juices. This thing that terrifies us, this face upon which we lay so much stress is something they have always wanted to deform, by hair, by shaving, by every possible means. Why? To remove it from the possibility of death by making of it a work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Battleground | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

June. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed two prescription labels, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...easy to make friends with people whose ideas are different, whose language we find easy to misunderstand. Sometimes they feel that we live up to our American reputation for being crude. Sometimes things happen which rub us very much the wrong way. It takes good will, patience and humilty to really make friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel Picked For Tour By Study Group | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

Checking accounts will sag, fathers will moan, and moguls in Lehman Hall will rub their hands in glee as the latest in a long line of term bills falls due today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today Is Last Day To Pay Term Bills | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...Rubbed Noses. Both Editor Evjue and Rebel Parker saw eye to eye on one thing. They had no use for Wisconsin's 40-year-old Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, an ex-Marine tailgunner who, in 1946, had defeated Evjue's good friend, Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. In 1947 Parker dug up, and Evjue delightedly splashed across his front page, the fact that McCarthy had been compelled to fork over some $3,500 in back income taxes on stock-market profits when the Treasury disallowed some of his deductions. Last week, it was Senator McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mud for Muckrakers | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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