Word: curling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the hell, it was too hot for football, anyway. Hour exams, tutorial, and that fourth course he hadn't sampled yet needed attention. You, that was it. He would curl up with a little cool beer and a book this afternoon. Vag chuckled at the thought of a B- or two in November to throw at his family. Then he noticed the three couples ahead of him, and the guy across the street with the familiar packages under his arm. He remembered something about a party "after the game." Vag, the student, was left in a phone booth...
Richard Neison Wishbone Harris was making an understatement. In three years, he has built his "Toni" home permanent-wave kits into a merchandising phenomenon which this year will gross an estimated $16 million and net a tidy $3 million profit, enough to curl anyone's hair. By shrewd advertising (1947 budget: $3.5 million), Harris has captured 50% of the home-wave market. A genial gladhander, Wishbone helps sales by gadding around the country calling on retailers...
...ones huddle together In time for the evening scare To chill their juvenile marrow And curl their innocent hair...
...Hearst: "We do not have to show the dream at the beginning and end of every page. ... If we simply call the comic something like Dreamer Dick, we would have more freedom. . . . Some device other than the dream might be used. . . . A simple method would be to have him curl up with a history book. . . ." Hearst to Greene: "If we find [the first series] is not a success, of course we can brief it, but if it is a success it should be a long series...
...warmed the glass with his hands and slowly sipped some of the liquor, inhaling it deeply as he raised the glass to his lips. Again, he lifted the cigarette and swallowed a long drag of the thick blue smoke, letting it curl out of the corners of his mouth. He posed. It was a beautiful sight...