Word: faber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Barbasol shaving cream and razor blades; America's Own matches; Böst toothpaste; Burnett extracts and spices; B. V. D.'s; Champion spark plugs; Crown overalls; Dictographs; Eberhard Faber pencils; Frostilla lotion; Musterole; Northern toilet paper; Penn-Rad oil; Venida hair nets; Zemo ointment; Runkel chocolate; Kreml hair tonic; Stokely strained vegetables; Winget Kickernicks for women...
Died. Rt. Rev. William Frederic Faber, 74, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Montana; of drowning: in Paradise Creek, Glacier National Park, Mont. Search parties found his body two days after the Bishop, an ardent mountain-climber, had left for a walk...
...latest bit of obstruction that the conniving minds of money-in-the-hand barristers can plot to hinder the movements of the notorious snail is the presentation of evidence to prove that Abe Faber is a schizomaniac. Now don't let that word stop you as it must have choked the 12 tried and true men who go to make up the Millen-Faber jury. For uninformed souls, schizomania is a cute little word for that ultra-modern disease, a "split personality." At this point, one thing seems certain. The effect that the mention of this alphabetical masterpiece would have...
...easy enough to see what will happen if schizomaniac is introduced as evidence to prove Faber's innocence, disregarding for the moment whether or not he is a schizomaniac, a dipsomaniac, a kleptomaniac or a spoofomaniac. The windy, spectacular oratory of the attorney for the defense is weapon enough to swing any jury from what little reason the members may possess to their emotional, misinformed sentimentality. But it makes wonderful newspaper copy...
Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom...