In Act II, when she has become the kept woman of a wealthy man and tries to smother her unhappiness with pearls and powder puffs, vulnerability trembled beneath the surface of the bored sex kitten.
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European settlers in North America killed the swans for food, and turned their down-covered skin into powder puffs for cosmetics and their feathers into quill pens, said Gary Ivey, a past president of the Trumpeter Swan Society.
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Somewhere among these grains of celestial sugar and powder puffs of cloudy light there is a planet, perhaps many planets, perhaps even Earth 2.0, as astronomers sometimes call the object of their dreams — a terrestrial look-alike to our own world, a "Goldilocks" place not too hot nor too cold, where Darwin's dice might have come up sevens.
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Powder puffs Powder puffs are pieces of soft material used for the application of face powder. They may be shaped as balls or pads. Historically, powder puffs have been made of very fine down feathers, cotton, fine fleece, etc. In modern times synthetic materials are widely used for powder puffs.
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In addition to softness, an important characteristic of powder puffs is their intake ability, i.e., the ability to hold powder. It was reported that for synthetic fibers important factors in designing high-intake powder puffs are mostly geometric ones: fiber diameter, pile length, and space between fibers, with little dependence on material factors."Intake Ability of Powder Puffs Made of Synthetic-fiber Cloths" , Journal of the Japan Research Association for Textile End-Uses (2005), vol.
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46, no. 8. 519-528. Powder puffs have been used as a stereotype image for soft, careless femininity, as seen, e.g., in the term "powderpuff sports", including collegiate sorority flag football leagues. The name of the Powerpuff Girls is a pun on "powder puff". American inventor Ellene Alice Bailey (1853-1897) patented several versions of powder puffs and has been described as "America’s powder puff pioneer".
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This verticordia has horticultural potential because of its flowers (described as "outstandingly beautiful, resembling miniature powder puffs"). It has been propagated from cuttings but establishing them in the garden has been difficult.
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Albizia amara is a mid-sized, deciduous tree which resembles acacia (sans the thorns). The bark of the tree is grey in color and is grainy and scaly. The leaves consist of up to 15 pairs of side stalks and the leaflets are tiny and can consist of about 15–35 pairs. The flowers are whitish-yellow powder puffs with long stamens and golden pollen.
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There were times, however, when the skaters also benefited from the talents of a team of professional seamstresses such as Mesdemoiselles Rainville and Pelletier, who set virtual factory in the room underneath the bleachers at the Minto rink (this room was a late addition). there, they produced costumes and transformed young skaters into Can Can girls, flowers, raindrops and powder puffs. The Minto Follies were slick. The Sparkled.
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In Teen Titans #48, she changed her name to the Harlequin. As the Harlequin, Duela utilized gimmicks such as smoke-inducing powder puffs and bullet-firing lipstick. After the Teen Titans comic books were canceled, she popped up in the Batman titles, calling herself the Card Queen while infiltrating a criminal organization called MAZE. Duela's last Pre-Crisis appearance is in Tales of The Teen Titans #50, as a guest at Donna Troy's wedding where she appears to be a middle-aged matron.
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Pens made out of swan quills were first sold by bundles of 25 or 100 to the London market in 1736. In 1837, 1,259,000 quills from both swans and geese were sold in London. Ten quills were taken from each swan or goose, resulting in the sacrifice of over 100,000 swans and geese in that year alone from Rupert’s Land. Powder puffs for women, coat-linings, vests, ceremonial robes, ornaments, boas, wallets, caps, jackets, quilts, pillows and mattresses are among the many items crafted with swan skins and quills.
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the trumpeter swan was hunted heavily, for game or meat, for the soft swanskins used in powder puffs, and for their quills and feathers. This species is also unusually sensitive to lead poisoning from ingesting lead shot while young. The Hudson's Bay Company captured thousands of swans annually with a total of 17,671 swans killed between 1853 and 1877. In 1908 Edward Preble wrote of the decline in the hunt with the number sold annually dropping from 1,312 in 1854 to 122 in 1877.
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When he asked her to change some of the Mancunian vernacular, she declined, stating "What I have written I proposed to write at the time; it was written deliberately, and I cannot admit of any alteration". Further editions of the book appeared during her lifetime: in 1772 (printed in Dublin), 1773, 1775 and 1776 (all printed in London). In May 1771 Raffald advertised that she had begun to sell cosmetics from her shop, and listed the availability of distilled lavender water, wash balls, French soap, swan-down powder puffs, tooth powder, lip salve and perfumes. The historian Roy Shipperbottom considers that her nephew—the perfumer to the King of Hanover—was probably the supplier of the items.
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In addition, players get points based on how much of the target is destroyed - but only total destruction warrants an end-of-mission bonus. Occasionally, performing a loop over a billboard will reveal one of four hidden Namco characters: Pac- Man, Inky, the Special Flag from Rally-X (which, like the Galaxian flagship, has appeared in several other Namco games) or Pooka from Dig Dug. If the player performs a loop in front of the three dancing girls which appear at the end of each mission, the girls will send out hearts representing kisses. If the player should shoot the girls, or hearts, they will turn into pink powder puffs and waving dogs respectively.
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Batman's supporting cast, beginning in the 1950s, occasionally included journalist Vicki Vale and heiress Kathy Kane, whose alter ego was the motorcycle-riding masked crimefighter Batwoman. With a tip of her cowl to the Harvey Comics character the Black Cat, who preceded her by 15 years as a superheroine on a motorcycle, Batwoman used weapons as well, although hers included powder puffs, charm bracelets, perfume, a hair net, a compact mirror, and a shoulder bag utility case with matching bolo strap. During this time frame, the comics of the Silver Age of Comic Books published by Marvel and DC were different enough that if you liked one, you were liable not to like the other. If you wanted the classic feel of the original 1940s superheroes, you were a DC partisan.
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