Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, in The Story of Barbara, the magazine describes the measures taken to transform homely Barbara Phillips into glamorous Barbara Phillips (see cuts). First a professional make-up man, Paramount's Edward Sigmund Senz, was given general supervision. He sent Miss Phillips to a dentist to have two protruding teeth "capped," to Columbia University for a voice test, to a wigmaker for a flattering, readymade wig to cover her short, scraggly hair. A dress designer conceived a special frock to "soften the neckline." Make-up Man Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made...
...brothers. She bears a son to one of these, Chauncey, who, however, marries the half-witted niece of a political boss to advance his career. (The other, John, marries an Australian girl.) Another grandson fails in his attempt to run a farm; another marries, begins practice as a dentist. The oldest granddaughter, Josie. a trim, efficient business girl, is having a secret love affair with her employer, marries him when his wife and daughter are killed in an automobile wreck. A younger granddaughter, Abbey, works as a schoolteacher, becomes a Communist, emigrates to Russia. Her twin brother, Louis, struggles against...
Last year a London dentist and archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found a primitive skull fragment in the gravel at Swanscombe, Kent. Few months later a bigger piece, the left parietal bone, was discovered. In his latest report to Nature Dr. Marston stated that his skull is more primitive in a number of points-including a lower and more sloping vault, "flat ruggedness and non-filled out contours"-than the skull of the Piltdown man, and therefore that the Swanscombe man should be assigned his rightful place as England's oldest oldster...
...program in the interest of National Ice Advertisers Inc. "Lolly"' Parsons threatened to blackball anyone who showed up at "Parties at Pickfair." This epic controversy was terminated when the Pickford program went off the air. Meanwhile, under the guidance of famed Radio Producer William ("Bill") Bacher, a onetime dentist, with Crooner Dick Powell and "Lolly" Parsons as continuing talent, Campbell's clambake goes serenely...
Biologist Wells's Harvard experimental laboratory is a steel, glass-lined tank big as a dentist's operating room. Within is a mercury quartz lamp which emits ultraviolet light. The air within the tank Mr. Wells can make as pure or as germ-laden as he pleases...