Word: combe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...produced and was using with considerable musical effect. I think its name is 'gassoon.' It is a small aluminum instrument, about five inches long, into the mouth of which one hums the tune, with a result rather like the sound of humming through a paper-covered hair-comb. The correspondent removed the instrument from his mouth, wiped it on his sleeve and gave it to the Prince to inspect. H. R. H. promptly placed it in his own mouth and commenced practising upon...
...bath she anoints her hair with coconut oil in which some particles of coconut meat may be seen and then knots her hair up out of her way and washes any clothes she may desire to clean. Then in her wet clothing she goes home for dry, and to comb and dry her hair. JASON M. WALLING...
Australian girls are very fine girls. Heave away! Heave away! With codfish balls they comb their curls. . . . Heave away for far Australia! -Antique Song...
...sands of Dover he kissed her, revived her, said: "She's the finest girl in the world, and the best swimmer in the world." Meanwhile, one C. Walter Lissberger, a Manhattan tire merchant, who financed Mrs. Corson, collected $100,000 from Lloyd's, London, on comb, the grandfather, a splendid man, a dead lover...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...