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...shoes and has them walk over an electrified metallic floor, thus making an electrical transcription of their gait. The record tells whether a person limps, walks unevenly or has other faults of locomotion, reveals fake claims of injury after accidents. It has proved that very high heels give the wearer unstable posture and tend to make her walk on the ball and toes of the foot. The recording device, which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph, indicates how an infantile paralysis cripple improves or fails to improve under treatment...
Radicals and Radical-Socialists have an unofficial uniform in France: a soft black felt hat. The type of hat is left to the fancy of the wearer. M. Herriot wears a rather dumpy velour. Until he became Premier in January Edouard Daladier wore a romantic fedora. His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg...
Into busy TIME office last week stamped baldpated, hooknosed, bewhiskered Ghost Peter. No wearer of rings, there hung from his gird loins the Fisherman's Keys. Crashing through...
...read books, magazines and newspapers only with the help of compact field glasses which they wore as spectacles. Such telescopic spectacles both magnify the print (the optical effect) and seem to bring it closer to the eyes (the psychological effect). Those advantages become troubles as soon as the purblind wearer moves around or deals with moving objects. Nothing seems to be where it actually...
Accepting the crozier (crook) of his office as spiritual shepherd, the embroidered mitre which is "a helmet of protection and salvation that the wearer may seem terrible to the opponents of truth," the two small gold & silver casks of wine and golden loaves of bread which are the offerings of the faithful to its priesthood, Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman last week donned a pair of white kid gloves (as did Jacob who covered his hands with skins of kid), was blessed and became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Reno, Nevada...