Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrests and riots began. In the center of the town be-flowered crowds gathered, sang the national anthem and the royal song. Hastily the Nazis chased flower sellers off the streets and padlocked all flower shops. There were far too many flowers. In each flower was hidden a razor blade...
...except for the cleft-palate title) equally expert historical novel by the author of last year's best-selling The Harp and the Blade Hero Ingram Applegarth, an Elizabethan gentleman-adventurer, is 21, short, not good-looking, full of adolescent illusions about himself, intelligent and endearing. The brisk plot recounts his efforts to restore to beautiful Marian Barking her stolen estates. Author Myers' women are somewhat featureless, his male characters agreeably vital-in particular, one Tom the Crowder, a malefactor with more entertainment value than Ulysses' sirens, and much less conscience. Author Myers' period painting...
Sharpen the Blade. A unique segment of the Japanese army is the Kwantung army, and Itagaki is its master. He and his companions in conquest shaped it for a single purpose: the extension of Japanese sway over northern Asia. The creation of Manchukuo achieved part of this aim; only attack on Russian Asia can complete the scheme...
...Production Board ordered razor blades cut to one a week for each shaver. Out cropped a lush, thickety growth of feature stories and beard pictures; the Smith Brothers sprouted back into the news; radio comics combed their files frantically for beard jokes, from B for beavers, to T for tuft. But the full text of WPB's order proved the best joke of all. As late as 1940 one blade a week per man was all the nation used anyway...
...Stout offered his own formula for beard cultivation on the first day of the great razor-blade shortage scare, to men who preferred to give up shaving. Prescribed bearded Author Stout: "Sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, and beer. And plenty of beer...