Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shaves. All but 5.66% of the men shaved themselves. Some safety razors women bought. Most people preferred shaving cream, used 6 tubes yearly. Yet 44% used shaving soap in bars or sticks; 2% shaving powders; 3% the recent beard softeners that require no water or brush...
President Coolidge, nothing daunted by the Warren affair of last spring, is preparing for another brush with the Senate. Through the White House spokesman he has just announced his intention not to withdraw the appointment of Judge McCamant to the Federal Circuit Court, which the Senatorial Judiciary Committee has recently rejected...
...Dear" had only fainted or collapsed after the jump, attendants might yet have saved his life by following certain veterinary procedures, by rubbing him vigorously with a brush, or a "handful of straw or twigs, or coarse towels, or even some coarse-woven wearing apparel. If aromatic spirits of ammonia were handy, they should have mixed one or two tablespoonfuls in four to six ounces of water and let the cloudy mixture trickle over the horse's tongue every 20 minutes. But this is a heroic measure of last recourse...
...chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors were shut. The funeral was to take place during the week, probably a state funeral, Belgium's fourth...
There, beside the solemnities, perhaps the somnolence, of education lie, not only mirror, puff, and vanity case but shaving brush and lotion--and, one hopes, a porcelain mug labelled "Papa...