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...series of tests. A psychiatrist examined the girl and summoned her parents to analyze their mental and emotional makeups. Mary underwent fluoroscopy, blood testing, other examinations. A gynecologist also took her in charge, for the nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many little girls become sensitive as they turn into young womanhood, and that this makes such girls sniff, lisp or pamper their noses in an apparently affected manner, and that this overture to womanhood causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sneezer | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...alive and on the move all the time, ruffling his hair, throwing his arms about, twisting his body, turning his face to the ceiling, laughing too much, either opening his mouth or distorting its shape by wedging his cigaret holder too far to the side. He may be a swell President, but he doesn't know how to pose for his portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lowdowns | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Education Is Swell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantor Entertains Business School As He Plugs For Radio As Life Career | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

...Hayden Channing, the hardworking captain of the harriers ran a perfectly swell race when he came in third behind the fast stepping Vilbur Woodland of Yale and one of his teammates. Henry Marcy was right behind him also, but these two runners are about the only ones who can be counted on to do anything very spectacular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROSPECTS FOR I.C.4A. COMPETITION ARE DARK | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made her nose look smaller, penciled in wide-curved eyebrows, applied long artificial eyelashes. Stepping back from his work with satisfaction, "Eddie" Senz tweaked the nurse's nose and chuckled: "Phillips, you're looking swell!" Most of the beautifying tricks were temporary, could be made permanent with more careful work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barbara's Beautification | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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