Word: combe
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...Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth was backstage with teasing comb at the ready...
...carrying just one evening dress, two day dresses, one suit and a few blouses. She could delightedly entertain the King and Queen at Hyde Park with a hot dog and mustard picnic-that was real Americanism. She knew she was homely, so she scorned lipstick and powder, always considered comb and hairbrush sufficient...
...riffles the hair with a comb, examining density and flow; then he begins...
...five years the museum dragged its feet, and it was not until this month that the public could see the studio reproduced, at last cracks and all. There were his rusting tool's the gleaming Blond Negress, the blocklike figures of the Kiss, various versions of the Comb, all looking like upside-down thunderbolts, and a wooden King of Kings resembling vises piled on top of each other, topped by an egg. Each day Brancusi had caressed these pieces, and each night covered them with cloth...
...Hawaii personally to sell the show to Henry J. Kaiser, and soon bullets were ricocheting merrily off mantelpieces from coast to coast. Treyz's first great masterpiece of programming, however, came with 77 Sunset Strip-the series that gave Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes and his pomade-raking pocket comb to the world. Millions of acned teen-agers fell for Kookie's hackneyed charms, and the hot-rod set became ABC's own. The next Treyz triumph was The Untouchables, which set a new vogue for group slaughter, made Eliot Ness a household name among the postwar young marrieds...