Word: cleanshaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobody, in one of Cummings' descriptions of him, is "Wifeless and only half awake, cursed with pimples, correctly dressed, cleanshaven above the nombril . . . in brief: an American." So Nobody naturally spends a good deal of his time laughing. The nice thing about Nobody's laughter, and the first thing most readers will like about Cummings' poetry, is that it carries no offense, even when directed at close relations: my uncle Daniel fought in the civil war band and can play the triangle like the devil...
Professor Warner stated that the prosecution had handled the case in a very questionable manner. "They lined up the two taxi drivers along with several others. The two men were unshaven and dirty; the others were cleanshaven and well dressed. Wouldn't anyone have picked the two men?" Professor Warner thought that the serious part of the case was the question of what would have happened if the two innocent men had been sent to the gallows...
...take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard. . . ." (Ezekiel v, i.) But the Biblical record failed to specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news...