Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very illuminating but are carried to such extremes that in the end they become tedious and sometimes are in bad taste, even silly: "Something warm and tender clasped him round the back of his neck; melted with desire and awe, he laid his hands upon the flesh of her upper arms., where the fine-grained skin over the bicepts came to his sense so heavenly cool; and upon his lips he felt the moist clinging of her kiss...
...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...
Inside the Century, in addition to barber and valet service, ladies' lounge and maid service, shower baths, free stenographer, observation car telephone (until departure), and market and sport reports, travelers now notice that white enamel is replacing nickel on plumbing fixtures, that upper berths are more private and accessible. These features, of course, are to the Pullman Co.'s credit, as is much else about the Century...
There are two stories of exhibition galleries along Quincy Street, the upper story having a toplight. The most important gallery on the main floor is Guest Hall, rising to a height of two stories and roofed with a beamed ceiling which is itself a sixteenth century work from Dijon. This room, which is finished in rough plaster with a stone floor, will be used principally for the exhibition of tapestries and mural decorations...
...department will have two divisions, one the Bureau of Appointments largely as constituted at present, and the other devoted to assisting the orientation of Freshmen in the choice of their upper school, discussing with students in Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School the election of courses and careers, collecting data to aid the Board of Admissions in problems related to methods of selecting students, and in general assembling information that will be helpful in educational and vocational guidance and in the placement of graduating seniors. The establishment of the new department now made possible by Mr. Ludington's gift...