Word: combe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play tunes on her enameled Spanish comb...
...yard wide, weighing eight pounds, containing a steel comb which is picked by minute pincers when notes are struck on the keyboard above-such is the Pichetone-instrument which Inventor S. Giley of Moscow declares will supplant the piano. Russian musicians assert that it has a tone superior to that of the ordinary pianoforte...
...will be its [the Federation's] mission to comb out of the world civilization those virtues which lend themselves to happiness and progress, and foster and cultivate them, and to make determined war upon those elements which retard or misdirect and which are hangovers of primitive days...
...neighboring Governors struck each a blow-in the interest, they said, of free institutions. In Madison, Wis., Governor John J. Elaine (LaFollette man) vetoed a bill aimed against rodeos. Pointing out that the bill would be rendered ridiculous by the natural struggle of "single-comb white wyandotte" roosters against "black Minorcas," would be barked to scorn by village dogs, the Governor concluded: "The innocent owner of midnight prowling cats not only is to be annoyed by their wails, but if he knows they are fighting and permits the fight to go on, he may be fined and thrown into jail...
...added Singh (Lion) to his name-"John Jones" became "John Jones, Lion." From baptism, the youth must wear the five "K"s: 1) kes-uncut hair of the whole body; 2) kachh-short drawers, for convenience in fighting; 3) kara-iron bangle; 4) khanda-steel dagger; 5) khanga-comb (his kit for cleanliness...