Word: combs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy; John Keats, before he became a medical student, used to help his father tend the horses at the Swan and Hoop livery stables; Mohammed was a lowly caravan conductor...
...Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw's former wife, rose from the bed on which she had been sitting in her ill-furnished hotel room; shook off the four griffons and the Albino Pekinese which had scrambled about her lap while she spoke; dashed to the mirror, seized a large comb and ran it through her black hair, which hangs to her shoulders in a long straight...
...laid down the comb and picked up a crystal perfume atomizer; sprayed her yellow crepê sports frock and paced up and down. She was as nervous as a race horse; her voice high pitched...
...wide-tooth comb; fine-tooth combs pull the hair out. Hairbrush bristles should be only moderately stiff...
...said a few graceful things of no special import and then fled craftily into the night." And it dragged on through all the other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb with half its teeth gone. The faithful remainder sat weary, wilted, their yawns breaking from control, their eyes turning glassy in their grim determination not to let them close in slumber?so stunned that when it was all over they didn't believe it. Friends had to prod them into...