Word: combings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actual blackmail for political ends by gathering discreditable information about the public and private lives of notables. "It is perfectly true that the Nazi political services comb the gossip columns . . . and a sterling anti-Nazi gossiper like Walter Winchell would probably be horrified if he knew the strategic uses to which some of his little scoops might...
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...sheet provided with corner pockets which grip the corners of a mattress. > A comb provided with individually detachable teeth which can be replaced if they break...
...half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...