Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subs prowled daringly. One crew, drifting in a lifeboat, told of being followed for five days by a submarine, which surfaced at night and set off rocket signals to other U-boats. The castaways knew why they were being followed: the sub wanted to nail the ship that rescued them. They made no signal for help until the submarine began to lag behind. Then they hailed a passing freighter, which picked them up and made a getaway...
...British doctor one day last winter came a woman with a scaly rash that covered her whole face to her ears, also appeared behind her knees. The doctor told how he finally traced the rash to its cause-the brilliant carmine nail polish used by the patient. The patches of rash at the back of the knees had him stymied, until the woman volunteered that she used colorless nail polish to stop runs in her rayon stockings...
...where many a woman stains her fingertips to such tantalizing tints as Swampfire, Lollipop, Hot Dog and Celestial Pink, dermatitis from nail polish has been frequently reported-with no effect on nail stainers. It seems that no particular polish or ingredient in the polishes is to blame. Often, too, a woman who is allergic to one brand or shade need only change to another...
...eighth day Aldrich lost a finger nail when a shark nipped his hand. A leopard shark was shot before a squall left the pistol corroded. Dixon batted one shark on the nose with his fist and drove it away...
...Cosmetic dealers, bound by no food & drug act, were selling boot polish as mascara, commercial lacquer as nail varnish, powdered paint as rouge...