Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large ham; some imported canned peanuts, hamburger and chile con carne; Dolan's butter and fat ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...
Many in the throng last week carried shirts nailed to poles, symbols of the descamisados or shirtless ones, as Perón affectionately calls the workers. Others waved placards depicting Perón and First Lady Eva. Peddlers hawked razor blades and other trinkets trademarked descami-sada. The peddlers knew it was good business...
...also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
...collection constituted Sophie Gimbel's conception of the New Look. As head of Saks's famed Salon Moderne, its custom dress shop, Sophie is one of the top U.S. designers. Moreover, as the U.S. dress industry is well aware, she has a razor-keen sense, as sharp as any other designer's, of what U.S. women will finally choose to wear out of the hodge-podge of new styles. As far as the great mass-producing dress shops of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue are concerned, that makes Sophie a fashion chart. What she displays one week...
...Everybody Listening? (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox) gives U.S. radio a once-over-lightly treatment with a sharp critical razor. The film achieves a telling effect by letting radio speak for itself-on the theory that there is enough rope lying around any broadcasting studio to hang most of the people responsible for radio. A good deal is accomplished, too, by the unemphatic statement of some familiar but appalling statistics: the suds of soap opera drown out 48% of daylight broadcasting time, and some 20 million U.S. housewives love that suds...