Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Applications for tickets to the second Crimson-Eli baseball encounter on Soldiers Field on June 22 may still be made, although last Wednesday was officially the closing date. The possibility of adding to the wooden grandstands on Soldiers Field enables the H. A. A. to hold these applications open until the day of the game...
...pursed lips of a whistling boy, explained Professor Miller, made the first flute. Wooden whistles, Pan pipes, led the way to the tube with its many stops...
...Parliamentary farce," and strode from the House, followed by all Laborite M. P.'s. In their absence cloture was rushed through. Sober reflection caused Mr. Clynes to realize that he had overplayed drama into melodrama. Next day he and the Labor cohorts were back on the common-sense wooden benches of the House...
...President's father was a vinedresser ? a peasant in wooden sabots and an earth-stained blouse. As a lad, little Gaston wriggled his bare toes often in grape mash as he trod out the juices on which fermentation works. The circumstances of his rise (TIME, Aug. 2) need not be rehearsed again. Nothing is more certain than that when the King-Emperor and the President greeted each other last week, two able but almost incredibly lucky men shook hands...