Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are standard requests, of course, for all kinds of cosmetics, razor blades, toilet articles, radios, books ("I'm starved to death for up-to-date Stateside reading"), and there are special ones like the following...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, where the temperature was 26° below zero, ladies of easy virtue ceased to advertise their charms by rapping on sporting house windows with a silver dollar. The more functional substitute: a safety razor blade. When scraped across a window pane it produced a sound approximating the love call of a snipe. More important, it scraped the ice off the glass, enabled passing gents to peer...
...whole, it all seems rather meaningless. Tyrone ends up by drifting off to parts unknown, while his audience still isn't exactly sure whether he really has found what he has been looking for all this time. It would seem that "The Razor's Edge," though it's had a pretty expensive honing, still isn't too sharp...
...business" side, where the executive sits, there are (among other wonders): a radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...
Provocation. In New Albany, Ind., Mrs. Goldie Sutton testified that her late husband had 1) thrown her over a cliff, breaking her collarbone, 2) trod on her neck, 3) doused her with kerosene and set her afire, 4) slashed at her throat with a razor, 5) menaced her with hot grease, 6) shoved her out a window, 7) singed her hair with a shotgun blast. The jury thereupon acquitted her of first-degree murder...