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Word: talcum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lower Depths. In Columbus, the Ohio Penitentiary News published an editorial denouncing intramural thefts of razors, shaving lotion, a Parker "51" pen, deodorant sticks, chopped ham, talcum powder, radio plugs, shave sticks and a pair of gloves, said: "We are appealing to each inmate to help eliminate these low-type characters that are in our midst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...even if he'd tried, the style would have been in the way. Of course, Morris was a bit naive. He hadn't translated literature into an ontological entity, and terms like "rendition" seemed little more than post facto price tags on genius. Morris, an aristocrat beneath the talcum powder, objected to the idea of fiction which has been the kept woman of the bourgeoise, the Critics. And James was really a critic writing handbooks...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

America's men were reared with rubber nipples and talcum powder to an apron-strung neurosis. Homosexuality (8,000,000 in the U.S. at last estimate) went on the upswing--Dad had the only woman worth wanting. And Father became the fall-guy for every situation comedy and Sunday color comic--the benign, well - meaning, oft - stumbling, ever - bungling apex of the Oedipus triangle...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Case Against Woman | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...even if he'd tried, the style would have been in the way. Of course, Morris was a bit naive. He hadn't translated literature into an ontological entity, and terms like "rendition" seemed little more than post facto price tags on genius. Morris, an aristocrat beneath the talcum powder, objected to the idea of fiction which has been the kept woman of the bourgeoise, the Critics. And James was really a critic writing handbooks...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

...heavy flakes but could not keep out the fine, windblown crystals. Sifting into the electrical system, the snow melted and short-circuited everything. Mechanics had to remove every water-soaked unit, dry it by hand. Said one Pennsy executive: "We were prepared for cornflakes, but we got hit by talcum powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Winter Woes | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

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