Word: combings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well-Groomed. In Detroit, Motorist A. Warren Hostetler was charged with reckless driving when police caught him steering with his knees, using his hands to comb his hair...
...standing with one foot on the quai and one in a gondola haggling with the gondolier over prices when the gondolier gave a quick twist with his car . . . One of the oddest hazards of the summer was the admonishment in a cata-comb in Rome, "Persons tampering with the relics will be excommunicated...
Ever since, there has been war between Petrillo and A.G.V.A.'s parent body, the A.F.L. Associated Actors & Artistes of America, whose affiliates cover every entertainment field from circuses to grand opera. Petrillo was accused of signing up any actor who played so much as a musical comb. But he called it raiding when the "Four A" tried to enroll musicians who,. according to Petrillo, only stepped into the spotlight or said two words like,"Hello, hello." Many entertainers solved matters by belonging to both unions...
...spindly child in the streets of Paris "I cried . . . cried, without tears. You understand?" What she means is that she bawled her songs. Even now, France's famed chanteuse needs no microphone; she sings out, nasally, a little as if she were singing through a papercovered comb. But with her infallible feel for beat and flow, Piaf fans find it pretty exciting...
...couple of bottles of wine and a siphon. A slender young boy joined us. "Who is he?" I inquired. "Son," said Tito laconically. Aleksander, or Misa as everyone calls him, is a skinny child with big wide eyes. Later, before I took their picture, the dictator took a comb and smoothed down the boy's unruly hair...