Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaving brush which furnishes its own hot water from a miniature alcohol-burning boiler in the handle...
...week Game Wardens Dawson R. Murchison, Jack McCarley and Jim Robinson were patrolling the mesquite for night poachers-Mexicans or "plain whites" who sneak in after dark and shoot deer which they blind with car headlights or with jacklights fastened on their caps. Seeing two lights weaving through the brush, the wardens crouched until the poachers were a few paces away, then challenged them. The lights went out, a shotgun blared. Warden Murchison fell, torn with buckshot. He died before reaching the hospital, 14 miles away at Alice...
Last week it was learned that the Boks have even located a prospective purchaser for the Ledger: the Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. of Canton, Ohio. President Louis Herbert Brush has owned the small Salem News since 1901. In 1923 he teamed up with Roy Donald Moore to buy the Marion Star from Warren Gamaliel Harding. Other Brush-Moore papers are in Canton, Portsmouth, East Liverpool, Steubenville, Ironton (half interest), Ohio; Salisbury and Wicomico...
Publisher Brush, now 66, sticks mostly around Salem, where he owns a historic house, fishes and dabbles in Republican politics. Publisher Moore, 50, an oldtime telegrapher and Hearst feature salesman, runs things at the Canton headquarters. Last week it was reported that: 1) Brush-Moore has taken a one-month option to buy the Curtis estate's holdings; 2) representatives of Ohio banks are inspecting the property to see about advancing the money; 3) the option expires January 16 and if it is not taken up, the Boks may let Publisher Martin stay on the job for a while...
...practical measure, both tongues were retained on signs along the language frontiers and in areas visited by tourists. This seemed like good business even to the most zealous Fleming, but to Florimond Grammens it appeared as sabotage of the language laws. Believing in direct action, M. Grammens bought a brush and a pot of black paint, began to wander along the countryside hunting out French inscriptions which hurt his patriotic Flemish feelings. Soon numerous young Flemish students joined...