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...each mate turned outward on the double bed and put the limbs through slashing, scissor movements, meanwhile straining the torsos inward. There followed calisthenics before the open window, dumbbell exercises, headstands and one-legged squatting exercises. The body was by then sufficiently limbered up for a "ten-mile jog trot." Mary was excused from some of the more rigorous exercises when she was pregnant, so she could sometimes lie abed watching her husband. Physically, he was a striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high, his visage was stern, beaked and remorseless, his eyes...
...Glass Bed. Despite her years, Helena Rubinstein usually rises at 6 a.m. from her transparent lucite bed (which lights up like a neon tube at the flip of a switch), is always in such a hurry that she breaks into a trot in darting about her salon. Although she has made an estimated $30 million as beauty's handmaiden, she still feels her selling needs constant rejuvenating. She noticed that the woman customer frequently bought two jars of cream-one for her husband. So she began a line of men's cosmetics and toilet goods named after...
This week, on the eve of Oscar post time, the moviemakers were busily grooming their hottest entries and preparing to trot them out. Along Beverly Hills's Wilshire Boulevard and in several art theaters in the year's last week, marquees will blaze with a flurry of top-fated (by their makers) new titles. The leading entries...
...Belmont, who once bucked up a despairing suffragette with some super-feminism: "Call on God, my dear, She will help you."* Quicker than the eyes of the women who lived through it, the camera catches the maid, the chaperone and the iceman going, the flapper, the fox trot and the facial cocktail coming...
...Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall, under 100 lbs.), among the muscular wharf lumpers he was said to be "too deaf to listen to reason, too loud to be ignored, and too small to hit." He was soon representing the waterfront in the New South Wales Parliament...