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...sarcasm attached to it either. I must confess that when I looked at the cut in the March 21 issue of TIME I could hardly realize that he was the same Flagg who used to attract so much attention for his good looks, the Flagg with the straight, slender figure and the quiet manner touched with just a bit of blaze...
Last week Poetess Mrs. Sarojini Chattopadhyav Naidu became Acting President of the Indian National Congress, the sixth Acting President appointed since St. Gandhi was clapped into jail in January (TIME, Jan. 11). Poetess Naidu is still rich, still a potent poetess, but the slender, bashful Victorian maiden has become a matron with grown children who now devotes her large person and her vast wealth to the cause of Indian Independence. Fully expecting that His Majesty's Government would soon jail her, Mrs. Naidu keynoted while she could last week these facts...
...skillful at freehand drawing.) If he could see into a windpipe, lung or gullet, why not reach into them- remove foreign bodies, perform small operations? It was only necessary to invent forceps, pincers, clamps, scissors, knives small enough to slip through the tubes. They must be operated by long, slender The University of Pennsylvania created a Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic for him. There he has taught to hundreds of graduate doctors, among them his son & assistant Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, the technique of removing growths and obstructions from the mouth, gullet and windpipe. There he taught them that for which...
...year. She got her first important part when Howard Hughes, remaking Hell's Angels as a talking picture, gave her Greta Nissen's role. In effect, Jean Harlow is a shiny refinement of Clara Bow. She is a competent though not a brilliant actress. Her contours are luxurious though slender; her face childish but engaging. Her most obvious and enticing quality is the peculiar pale thatch on top of her head. It got her her first part in the cinema, when a director noticed her standing outside a Kansas City drugstore. It caused her pressagent to invent the phrase "platinum...
...difficulty that faces engineers in the construction of steeples is the wind stress. Although the girden seem scarcely able to support the stock pole, the chief concern is to make all joints form the ground up so tight that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from...