Word: combings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week and an almost full moon sailed up over Maysville. Verl Stinchcomb, Maysville Country Club professional, started out to play nine holes of nocturnal golf, with two club members tagging along. The flight of a golf ball cannot be followed even in full moonlight so Golfer Stinch comb had to keep his shots straight down the fairway in order to find his ball. He made a birdie and an eagle, lost no balls, finished with a nine-hole score of 35, one under...
...supplied with help, an actual labor shortage exists in several agricultural districts and smaller industrial centres. This fact was last week grim news for many a slovenly business clerk, for Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, gave intimations of a new Nazi plan: to have Government agents comb the personnel of banks, business houses, department stores, newspapers, and to ship all white-collar workers "not fitted for commercial employment" out to work as common laborers in factories and fields...
...background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...
...Soviet Constitution the most democratic in the world." The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press in the U.S.S.R.. but last week the big Moscow newsorgans continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky. who so far as his Moscow journalist friends knew "simply disappeared" two months...
...fisherman found Charles F. Keene, quite dead and floating out to sea upside down. What held him so was a brief case whose contents inventoried: a lady's mesh bag, an automobile jack, a mechanic's hammer, two beer can openers, a pen knife, a pocket comb, a silver tea strainer. The brief case was roped to his neck with tight sailor's bowline knots. In Mr. Keene's vest pocket: only a small tin box containing three .32-calibre cartridges and two aspirin tablets. In Mr. Keene's throat, a hole through which...