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...North Bergen, N. J., one Emma Albert, one Otto Carver, were up in a Ferris Wheel. The wheel swayed at the top of its circle; Miss Albert's forehead was carved in a horrible fashion. The carving was caused by Carver's teeth...
When Holbrook Blinn first created Pancho Lopez, erstwhile Mexican bandit, he made him gorgeous and highly picturesque, but possessed of a certain oleagenous quality that was more reptilian, than romantic. With his black hair well greased and his thick curl closely pasted to his oily forehead, one felt that on a hot day he might ooze out through the cracks in the stage. Avoiding this, Mr. Mowbray makes his Lopez dustier but not so greasy. It is a pleasant change...
...said, wiping the sweat from his forehead, "one professor came in here today and bought eight pairs of flannel trousers. Yes, it certainly is hot enough for me', but why complain about the weather when it brings such good business...
...evolution," that "Man comes of a very ancient lineage," which measures "the dignity of his attainment"-he, Professor Lull, is himself an example of the dignity of that attainment: a "fine physical specimen," over 6 ft. in height, sturdy, straight as an arrow, with regular features, a high arching forehead, a keen mind, soft spoken (although suffering, like Edison, from deafness), courteous, kindly, possessed of a sense of humor-all the attributes commonly thought of as the height of human attainment. At Rutgers he was the Homer Hazel† of his day-a great shot putter, a sturdy footballer...
...most picturesque is the Baptist belief that the body of a convert must be totally immersed in water-either running water such as the River Jordan or a pool constructed in the church. Most other churches from Catholic to Calvinist are content with symbolical sprinkling of water on the forehead...