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Word: lathers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grow as the barrister matured and developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career. He finished with a gesture?and Charles Evans Hughes, pleased, handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Count | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Brown's eleven iron men went out to clip through Colgate's lather. But Colgate's backs were slippery, the Colgate line stood stiff as bris tles, and Colgate, beaten only by the Navy, did what no other team has done to Brown, holding the almost-national champions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Take in one hand plain, unmedicated soap, and in the other a clean tooth brush. Lather the brush. Open the mouth. Scrub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 4 out of 5 v. 1 out of 20 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...this point I must pause in my labors. Under any other circumstances Mr. Whitney's lecture on Luther and Zwingli in History 7 would find me in Emerson J at 11 o'clock. But oven Lather and the stirring period of the Reformation cannot overcome that feeling of restlessness which the thought of 11 o'clock brings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

...powdering his nose in the Columbia library some months ago must express his laurels in haste to the University of California. Those inconsiderate, Westerners, according to yesterday's New York Times, have gone him one better. Where he only powdered, they bring their shaving-tackle to the lecture-room, lather, rub it in or not according to their preferences in shaving-cream, and shave with as much success as lack of a mirror will allow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATHER AND BLATHER | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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