Word: comber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Dennis Enright, head curry-comber of the Stadium turf, there were actually less bottles left in the stadium after the Army game, than after any other major game this year. Is Harvard weakening? No, the reason is that the Harvard men had less reason to drown their grief than at the previous games for the Harvard team's heartening touchdown took the place of many a quart...
Hair combings to be burned, to prevent a bird from finding them and building them into a nest. Otherwise the careless comber will suffer headaches until the fledglings leave the hair-woven nest...
...wave of complaints against the way CWA was run was only a mild ripple compared to the comber of complaints against the plan to stop running CWA altogether. Since Nov. 25 Mr. Hopkins has put 4,000,000 men on his payroll, paid them with checks on the U. S. Treasury and used up most of $400,000,000 allotted to him. This form of direct relief was originally planned to last only until Feb. 15 when PWA projects and business recovery were scheduled to provide fresh jobs. Not only pick & shovel men laying sidewalks, building wharves, working on public...
...subjects Hemingway chooses are seldom light or sweet; it is not surprising that only four of these stories were published in magazines. An adept at creating sinister atmospheres, Author Hemingway has never whistled up an eerier spirit than in "After the Storm," a story of a Florida beach comber who discovers the submerged wreck of a liner. Some of the other tales: A terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess...
...starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept Second Mate Ernest Friend overboard. Sailors threw him a lifebuoy immediately. The ship luffed and signalled for help. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V heard the cry "Man Overboard" and hove to. But it was too late. Ernest Friend never reached...