Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the Probak "butterfly" blade (so called because of a filigree design in its center), invented by Henry J. Gaisman (also inventor of the autograph system used in Eastman Kodaks), chairman of AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., manufacturers of Probak. This blade, which fits the Gillette razors, was patented in 1928; a patent was reissued for it in January 1930. New Gillette blades bear the legend "Patents Pending," are, therefore, not patented...
Until the 1860 campaign Lincoln was beardless. In October of that year a little girl wrote him asking for an autograph and advising him that fashion favored beards.* Lincoln replied that he thought it would be "a piece of silly affectation," but on his inauguration day appeared with clumpy black chin whiskers. A cartoon of that day shows a drug store interior with a sign over the door, bearing the legend: "Agency for the Lincoln Whiskeropherous." On a table is a smirking bust of the hirsute...