Word: curl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaunt, bookish fellow named Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was presented last week with a problem calculated to curl a man's nerve ends up like watch springs: he inherited $650,000 from his mother. Under ordinary circumstances, he might well have kissed his fingers and done a buck & wing. But Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was forced to remember something: 18 years ago, finding himself with a million dollars, he had given it all away, and he had sworn he never wanted anything to do with money again...
...Germany of 70 years ago, in a little Black Forest town, Charles Nessler collected hair. Little Charles snitched samples at the local barbershop, snipped tresses from the village maidens. He wanted to find the answer to a mystery; What makes hair curl? When he grew up, Nessler became a barber and moved to London, where he invented a method of making false eyelashes, sold upwards of 10,000 a month...
After 20 years of experimenting, he solved his mystery. He discovered that if hair is soaked in an alkali solution and heated in a curl, it will stay curled. Thus the permanent wave was born. Not content with his triumph, Nessler was busy on many another front. He patented more than a score of hairdressing devices (curlers, solutions, testing machines) and licensed operators all over the world to use them. He came to the U.S. and made a fortune...
...over and have some fun with mother." He supervises the recording of interviews ("Hold it, Mother, there'll be a teaser first"), and he writes and personally delivers the commercials for such sponsors as McKettrick Williams dresses; Sitroux tissues; Manischewitz products; the Toni Co.'s Bobbi Pin Curl Home Waves, and the Illinois Meat...
...Brody, a retired bachelor transit worker, began three years ago to feed and care for "Timothy," a tan neighborhood stray. Timothy developed home-loving traits, and would curl up comfortably at Mr. Brody's feet on cold autumn night, purring happily. Mr. Brody could not imagine why Timothy vanished two weeks...