Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champions of feminine democracy may grant that the Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins; but they firmly believe that Judy O'Grady's skin is prettier. On this assumption some of Judy's champions last week held a competition for "Miss Cafeteria Society." The place was Manhattan's Fiesta Danceteria, where subway society can get supper on a tray for 60? dance all night for nothing to Manhattan's better swing bands. Fiesta's patrons flocked to compete: stenographers, sales girls, telephone operators, factory girls from...
...country at least-comes out to take up residence on land. On land the newts are bright red in color, are known as "red efts." During this phase they are immature and cannot reproduce. After three or four years, they go back to the water, slough off the red skin of adolescence, assume the olive-green garb of adults, acquire the keeled tail of an aquatic animal, and tackle the business of parenthood. Question: What impels them, after so long a time on land, to go back to the water? Scientists of an older generation would have answered, "Instinct...
...first year as Nazi Health Führer, Dr. Conti distributed to U. S. teachers and doctors good-looking statistics on German health. The statistics are correct. But, in a hard little book (Heil Hunger!-Alliance Books-$1.75), Dr. Martin Gumpert, former head of the City Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Berlin, now a refugee in Manhattan, made Dr. Conti's figures prove an ugly picture of deterioration in Naziland. Besides Dr. Conti's figures Dr. Gumpert also used other official Government figures and many hiding in German medical journals. "There are 700,000 German workers...
...financial aid. Harvard men have shown their interest in the theatre-as Lasell, Erskine, Simmons, Wellesley, etal, can testify. Pi Eta and Hasty Pudding have a traditional place. The Harvard Dramatic Club returned from a theatrical grave with their production of a few years ago of "Dog Beneath the Skin. "And the Student Union, after an exciting version of "The Cradle Will Rock," is undertaking an Odets and a MacLeish play. Surely all these excursions into the world of drama by Harvard men show that there is a real and permanent interest in the theatre at Cambridge; surely they show...
Finally consenting to go out to meet the more ardent of his admirers, Brill hitchhiked to his goal, wearing a borrowed buffalo-skin coat, only to find on his arrival that he was in the midst of the Wellesley branch of the Leap Year Club of Massachusetts Women's Colleges...