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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High heels for women are usual. Other cities show much better records. In Philadelphia and St. Paul, for instance, the averages are, for women, 5½ to 6; for men, 8 to 9. " The trouble with New Yorkers is that they are afraid to walk. They take taxi, streetcar, subway for a trip of a few blocks." The chiropodists pilloried the low-priced automobile as a doubtful blessing, causing many persons to take on weight, lose strength, develop weak feet. The doctors also demonstrated an apparatus for lengthening a shortened foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Foot Sizes | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...They agree, while traveling, to stay in their seats in the Pullman, and not to walk out onto the back platform and wave their handkerchiefs idiotically at the yokels." (Insult to Mr. Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Insulters | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...Will you walk into my parlor ?" said the fly to the spider. "YESS!" said the spider, "and now it is mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Stolen: a Party | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

Only 38. This is one of those pictures about college life. The crossed tennis racket, roll-necked sweater college life perpetrated exclusively by the DeMille boys. Female inhabitants of the institution walk the campus clutching ice cream cones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...best to appear cultured would dare to express ourselves as frankly as Mr. Lait, no matter how much we really were bored by Die Walküre. Indeed to dismiss all opera with a gesture might really appear, at times, to be going too far. But to the implication that vaudeville is an unappreciated art among our own clever-clevers, it seems safe to assent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Merit in Vodvil | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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