Word: lotions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...streams of deadly gas. He tries to turn it off. Impossible. He tries the door. It is locked and batterproof. It appears that he will surely die. But he quickly wraps a shaving-cream bomb in a towel, wedges it against the door, sprinkles it with after-shave lotion, and touches the flame of a cigarette lighter to this ingenious subnuclear device. The blazing lotion heats the shaving cream until it explodes volcanically, and Napoleon Solo-the man in the shower-staggers out into his hotel room...
Slaves & Skin Lotion. The origin of U.S. marshals goes back to medieval England, where the Old French word mareschal (groom) came to mean a sort of royal sheriff in charge of collaring witnesses for the King. In the U.S., when the 1789 Judiciary Act created the 13 original federal district courts, it also provided for 13 marshals to carry out court orders. Appointed by the President, those marshals were at first responsible for everything from census taking to courts-martial and taking custody of prize vessels. In the 1850s they chased fugitive slaves all over the North, much as they...
...example, one deputy marshal stowed away in the men's room aboard the Governor's plane. Marshals have been called upon to seize entire businesses, not to mention stolen art works and such other oddments as a shipment of "Helene Curtis Magic Secret Wrinkle-Smoothing Skin Lotion...
Married. William G. Mennen Jr., 51, Soapy's cousin, second in command (after Older Brother George) of the family's shaving cream-and-lotion company, who is largely credited with giving Mennen its sweet smell of success; and Audrey Holzwarth Wardell, 42, Morristown, N.J., secretary; both for the second time; in San Francisco...
...peel. Cans now come in thin tin or aluminum instead of hefty old tin plate, and in many cases have evolved into containers of paper, plastic or fiber foil. The aerosol can, once limited to a few household uses, now dispenses everything from cake icing to lotion for poison...