Word: combes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday morning. His real enemies are the phonograph record and its cousins, the motion picture sound track and the radio station turntable. He is mortally afraid that without James Caesar Petrillo, all the music in the U.S. would eventually be produced by one non-union musician playing a musical comb into a microphone...
...Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour by arriving late (the opening was never delayed for Alfonso XIII), Evita again bugged Spanish eyes. She wore her mantilla (traditionally held rigorously straight) over a comb cocked rakishly above...
Courtship. Dirty water from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...
...robber then proceeded to comb the apartment and to search through Havelock's clothes, helping himself to a size eight pair of brown shoes after ascertaining their size. Some minutes later after Havelock's alarm, John Fitzgerald of the University police saw a man fleeing up Plympton Street with what appeared to be a pair of shoes under...
Reporters surrounded him. He was a little puzzled by the questions. What was so difficult to understand? God had given him the power to cure; he was using it. Avak removed his hood and hairnet, passed a comb through his tangled hair. Said he: "I think I can cure the younger Arakelian...