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In makeup, especially, Grand-Guignol-eurs excel. Their piece de resistance is a boiled, partly skinned head (the actor is wrapped in a silk stocking and daubed with putty, sponge, cloth and "blood"). The theater has a secret recipe for blood; when the stuff cools it coagulates and makes scabs...
Most foolproof method, but unfortunately limited to women, Editor Bryson wrote, is "the silk stocking system." It involves hiding prepared notes "in the tops of stockings directly beneath the skirt, which is shyly and slyly raised when help is needed" and then modestly pulled down whenever a proctor passes. "The...
It had been that way all season. In 13 of the 14 games that Walnut had won, Max's height had dwarfed all competition in Mississippi basketball. Max ("Shorty") Palmer was six inches taller than the tallest known college basketballer (Boston College's 7 ft. 1 in. Elmore...
I'd like my stocking filled," said Miss Jean Workmann, Wellesley 49, "with invitations to all the big, bang-up festivities at Harvard next fall.
The owner of the Varsity Liquor Store in the Square, Frank Purcell, disagreed with his colleagues on the prevailing undergraduate scotch propensity. "Harvard men will drink anything alcoholic," he remarked, hastily explaining that the turpentine on the floor would be used for the walls. He expected malt liquor to be...