Word: combings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water while it is in the pool. The results of this addition can be tested by comparing a test tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition, the floor of the tank is periodically cleaned by being subjected to the suction of a large curry comb, connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
...private visiting list of Miss Juliana Cutting; a lighted red lamp or lantern; the red carnation of Mr. Clifton Webb at the Music Box; the initialed handkerchief of New York's most charming and honest banker; three red hairs from a lady's head; a mauve comb; a live monkey; a shoe of Jimmy Durante; any unused foreign stamp; a bicycle...
...brown-shingled house had been leased for the Einsteins, near the homes of the late Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Henry van Dyke and John Grier Hibben. First thing Dr. Einstein did was stroll hatless down Princeton's Nassau (main) St., enter a 5?-&-10? store to buy a comb and scissors. Then he bought two newspapers, listened attentively and smoked his pipe while his associate, Dr. Walther Mayer, translated the news aloud. Next morning the Press assembled, at the invitation of Princeton's publicity department, for photographs. At length it was announced that Dr. Einstein could...
While Mrs. Travers and her husband's traveling companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...