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Florence, Rome and Naples are being turned inside out for the Führer's cold eyes. Tons of sweet oil are poured on the creaking Rome-Berlin axis to keep it cool. But the alliance is unnatural. It is a faux ménage after all. The two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Fast Dye. Two specimens are cut from the piece of cloth. One specimen is used for the test; the other saved for comparison after the test. The test specimen is sewed to a piece of bleached cotton cloth and placed in a jar of hot (160 degrees F.) soapy water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Testers | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Turning up unwashed and unshaved in Baltimore after being marooned in a Pittsburgh hotel, General Hugh S. Johnson told how he had lived for two days on beer and seltzer water, how one woman guest had taken a bath in three cases of ginger ale. Said he: "It was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell in the Highlands | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

In three words: They Were Unwashed! The drains of Clark House became clogged, an incident which necessitated the meagerest and, in most cases, the most insufficient use of soap and water.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/12/1935 | See Source »

To show how the unwashed ladies of the Renaissance looked at their best, Mrs. Thomas has sketchily copied France's Diane de Poitiers, a German artist's Venus, naked except for picture hat and necklace, and a Botticelli model. Facing them, smart, stingy Queen Elizabeth of England, decked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Narcissism | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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