Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that those who cherish their wives do not consort with Spanish dancers on the side. When he has gone, the curtains enfolding the wife never tremble. Their motionlessness is the essence of drama, and though a domestic tragedy has been laid bare, it is stated in such detached and plastic terms that the audience laughs...
Reporters who went out last week to get copy about Berlin's free civic lipsticks, rouge and eyebrow pencils, were tolerantly received by Dr. M. Gumpert, director of the Bureau and a plastic surgeon of renown. They did not quite understand, he said. There will be no free "cosmetics" as that frivolous term is commonly understood. Instead, the Bureau will try earnestly and scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert...
...than 15 years before he realized the meaning of the "Great Eye." He now recommends that students cultivate it by the direct study of originals. Reproductions and photographs lose the delicate, important values. Furthermore, stone should be the only material of Great Eyed sculpture. Bronze and clay, the more plastic media, do not lend themselves to final innuendos of light and shade...
...iterative attendance at eight o'clock dinners and prolonged sessions given over life dance, whose monotonous four-four rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz. But from this very sameness is inculcated a habit from which the plastic age finds it hard to depart Parties become not only more frequent but more lengthy and the rigid two o'clock closing rule of three years ago has been honored during the present season by breaches of from one to three hours...
...This contains a farrago of insinuations and trivialities, many of them untrue. For example, Dr. Faunce appreciates a good cigar and keeps a box of one of the best brands always ready to enjoy with his friends. The appointment of Percy Marks was terminated before the publication of The Plastic Age. Neither Chinese nor Negroes are numerous at Brown, although her gates are open to both, and should be so in a land of equal opportunity. Far from being undistinguished in his undergraduate days, Faunce was one of the leading scholars in his class. You ought to know better than...