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...crux of the ceremony was to burn deep into the shaved head of Wu Pei-fu nine brands, each the width of a man's thumb, and serving to remind him of his nine vows as a Buddhist priest; 3) The branding was made endurable by covering his scalp (except on the spots to be branded) with pieces of raw turnip, damp and coolingly efficacious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wu into Bonze | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...success of the Reading Period comes in a statement from R. B. Little, barber at the Harvard Union, that dandruff has increased considerably since Christmas, compared with former years. Little's reasons for the fact are as follows. "The students were inside more and got less exercise, therefore the scalp dried up. Then, they neglected their hair to a great extent, being more interested in their studies than in outside engagements. And, of course, when more blood went to the brain, less went to the scalp. Anyhow I see more dandruff at Harvard than at any other place where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION BARBER TAKES FLING AT STATE OF STUDENT SCALPS | 2/15/1928 | See Source »

...potentialities for wholesale excitment which Cline offers are endless--lycanthropy, vampirism, astrology, and an isolated manor on the Hudson. All the paraphernalia are there, and it is irritating, having settled oneself for an evening of keeping hair and scalp connected, to have it descend into the customary muck of sex-repressions and eroticism. Mr. Cline commences by peopling his hall of horrors with supernatural terrors, and ends with a heavy-handed accent on the sexual...

Author: By J.e. BARNETT ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...grow hair. While progress toward the first of these objectives has been slow, a beauty expert of New York has already achieved the second. The fruit of eighteen years study is a process revealed on Wednesday by which he can anchor any number of hairs to the scalp by means of tiny gold springs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPRING LOCK | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...spite of injuries that materially weakened the Harvard soccer team, the Williams eleven was unable to score on the Crimson booters, Saturday afternoon, and when the University squad left Williamstown, it had added the Purple scalp to its list, by virtue of a 1 to 0 victory. Louis Kerness '29, made the only score early in the first period. The rest or the game was close, with the Crimson team, having a slight edge over the Purple booters, pressing close, but unable to score. L. L. Driggs '28, Louis Kerness '29, and Alexander Stollmeyer '30, starred for the winners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAKENED SOCCER TEAM TAKES WILLIAMS SCALP | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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