WAVE OF EFFEMINACY.
STUDENTS AT CAMBRIDGE. PAINT AND POWDER THE VOGUE. B UII . LONDON. Oci. 5 The Sketch says that nowhere else in Britain, except in London and at Oxford, can there be seen so many soft, berouged youths as there aro at Cambridge. The paper asserts that a wave of effeminacy has swept over the university. " Undergraduates with powdered cheeks, painted lips and bistre-laden eyelids cluster at the street corners. They have taken their clue from decadent playwrights, and imagine they will be thought clever if they ape women and eschew games and healthy pursuits. Cambridge citizens are manifesting their hatred and scorn of these girl-men. They declare that in the old days they would have been ducked in the river."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 11
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122WAVE OF EFFEMINACY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 11
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