Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing with such women! (I know from experience-but that is another story.) I warn you that if I ever find a fake TIME reader on the elevated here, he will be in the subway of some cemetery when I am finished with him. ROLF MARTIN BRUSH...
Advertising Awards (founded 1923 by Edward William Bok). Last week Dean Donham gave a gold medal to Orlando Clinton Harn, advertising manager and chairman of the sales committee for National Lead Co. Mr. Harn originated the famed Dutch Boy cavorting on National Lead paint can labels with his paint brush. Mr. Harn has organized and been active in various advertising associations; is resigning the presidency of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (the "A. B. C.," which verifies publishers' circulation figures), to be its general manager...
...dance hall "hostess," one Marcia Estardus); "LURED TO His HIDDEN HOME AND CLUBBED" (the "hidden home" was an ordinary apartment. Miss Estardus knew who Mr. Thaw was and went to his apartment voluntarily. She was not "clubbed," but said that Mr. Thaw had beaten her with a hair brush which she wrenched from him.) "THAW BITES BROADWAY GIRL" (This was a less imaginative headline. Miss Estardus did indeed allege that Mr. Thaw flung her to the floor...
Harry Thaw's actual condition was suggested by the allegation that after friends broke in and rescued Miss Estardus he ran about shouting: "Where's my brush? Where's my brush?" Such words, if they were uttered, place Mr. Thaw outside the realm of useful discussion by a public not made up of specialists...
...developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career. He finished with a gesture?and Charles Evans Hughes, pleased, handed...