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Word: lather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gambling debt owed to Adolph Menjou, proprietor of the Cafe Metropole. Mr. Power, to square things, poses as a Russian prince and is introduced by Mr. Menjou to Miss Young, wealthy heiress, on the understanding that he will be exposed, Mr. Menjou receiving a present from Miss Young's lather in return for having bared the prince's true identity. Of course love finds its way from there, and things work out very pleasantly before the final scones...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/26/1937 | See Source »

...repeating rifle to the design of safety razors, inventing in 1921 the Schick magazine razor with a plunger for discarding and inserting blades. Eight years later he perfected the power-driven shave. The Schick Dry Shaver, an electric gadget selling for $15 which mows down whiskers without cream or lather, has found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest razor battle when the U. S. District Court in Brooklyn held that his basic patent for the Dry Shaver had been infringed by Dictograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dry-Shave War | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Linaker and Ricardo Cortez do their best to make a second rate murder picture. "the Mystery of Dr. Harrigan," take a mildly gruesome and gently thrilling tenor. One cannot, however, work up much of a lather over this murder of an unpopular M.D. in a private hospital...

Author: By H. M. P. jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...lather...

Author: By L. P. Jr., | Title: "HAVE A GOOD VACATION!" | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...flexible and sure that critics forgave her the occasional tones which were metallic and edgy. Proud Father Salvatore Tumminia found that business picked up following his daughter's success. Two days after her début Tenor Schipa climbed into Barber Tumminia's chair, let him lather his face while pretty Daughter Josephine trilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barber of San Francisco | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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