Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that the brothers have some new routines. 1) Shipboard routine: Hysteria is built up by putting four people and a trunk in a cabin intended for one person .and suitcase, then bringing in stewards, manicurists, telephone repairmen, et al. 2) Landing routine: The stowaways, minus passports, cut the beards from three sleeping notables, glue them on, enjoy a public welcome until voiceless Harpo, called on for a speech, stalls by drinking water from the speakers' table, washes off his beard. 3) Opera routine: At the premiere of the opera company a full symphony orchestra attempts to render...
Born in 1840 in Paris, Claude Monet was the dean of the Impressionists. He outlived all of them, thanks to his iron physique, died at the age of 86, a magnificent old gentleman with a silky white beard...
...diameter, is so black that it makes other blacks look brown. If any of them had neglected to shave before breakfast, he could have accepted the free-shave offer of the research man for Schick Dry Shaver, Inc who shaves twelve men everyday to learn what he can about beard problems. ¶ At Harmarville, Pa., near Pittsburgh Gulf Refining Co.'s research subsidiary has built a group of roomy, attractive buildings for its colony of scientists. Most of the touring businessmen had heard of modern oil prospecting by "artificial"' earthquakes and other geophysical methods. At Harmarville they...
...fiend or even if your tasters run only as far as Old Maid, you might be interested to know that there is a pack of Hindustani cards in the archives of Widener which was invented by a king's wife to make him stop pulling hairs out of his beard...
...name of the pack is Gunja-Kha, which means "Relieving Scalp." They were invented to keep the hands of the king busy so that he would not scratch his head, or, as another version of the tale has it, so that he would not pull hairs out of his beard...