Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West, then returned to his old home at Washington and surrendered to the District health authorities. The case of Early is a living tragedy, for he has been the subject of hot dispute among specialists, and has frequently been championed by Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. His disease has not progressed, apparently, and has never hindered him from a normal mode of life. But while he lived in freedom at various times, his reputation followed him, and indignant neighbors always hounded him away. His wife has stuck by him. though separated from...
...rich, variegated, almost overpoweringly sumptuous review-full of jewels, revolvers and pulchritudinous squablets. Costumes, costumes, costumes-choruses, choruses, choruses. Much beauty and little wit-the Tiller girls-Tom Patricola-Johnny Dooley-Delyle Alda-the animated curtain from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...
...Dreyer treatment on human tuberculosis patients with " benefit obviously greater than from any other form of treatment in use." If the disease was not too far advanced, the patients improved in temperature and weight, tuberculous joints cleared up, tubercle glands in children diminished, ulcerations of lupus (a tuberculous skin disease) were healed. Dreyer and his colleagues caution against premature jubilations, but state that results so far are incontrovertible...
...Vienna, whose experiments in the transmission of acquired characteristics have recently aroused widespread interest here and in England, some biologists going so far as to rank him with Darwin (TIME, May 12). Kammerer grew eyes in the proteus, a sightless newt whose eyes are mere rudimentary spots beneath the skin, atrophied through ages of living in deep marine caves. He did it by exposing the newts to red light in their watery home continuously for five years from birth. After several generations, one group appeared with eyes that pushed through the head. The offspring of these also had eyes...
...found her as cute and lovely as on the screen, but much more beautiful, for the deep violet of her eyes, the gold of her hair and the rose petal softness of her skin are impossible to perceive on the silver sheet." Imagine...