Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of testimonial-persuasions, the central figure of which was attractive young Miss Elinor Patterson, daughter of Major Joseph Medill Patterson, the Tribune's owner and publisher. In no uncertain words the Tribune's 1,020,427* readers were let into the secret of how Miss Patterson's "lovely skin with its rare petal texture, its flush of unfolding youth, its transparent delicacy" is kept "imperishable" in spite of a "double strain" that now bears upon...
...skin which is doubly taxed by society and professional life and which must be kept clear, fresh and free from weariness and that horrid pasty look, Pond's Two Creams are perfect, so fragrant and pleasant of texture, so sure in fulfillment...
Frontal sinusitis? Meningitis? Inflammation of the skin muscles? Typhoid fever? Hesitating "noes." "Have you boys been eating pork?" "Last I had was at Champaign. It was kind of rare, shredded in my teeth...
...surgeon found that under the boy's skin were folded two tiny arm stumps. There were faint traces of some armless muscles. With boldness and calculation tha surgeon went to work; cut loose the stumps, brought them free; stretched muscles; grafted flesh and skin; produced two arm stumps as large around as the arm of a two-year-old baby. These grew strong, grew larger. Henry became able to wiggle them at will. Artificial arms were carefully fitted over them. He could do things for himself. Best of all he could have regular shirts "with sleeves." His joy when...
...come on in an ordinary case, from six to thirty-six hours after departure, normal weather conditions prevailing: discomfort in the epigastric region, varying with the rise and fall of the ship; anorexia; salivation, with frequent swallowing movements; headache, dizziness; weakness, progressing to faintness; cold perspiration of the skin, and pallor of the face, with the oft-described greenish hue. The facial expression, which is one of great dejection and apathy, faithfully records the internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally get so strong that the desire to vomit is overwhelming, and after that act is consummated great relief is experienced...