Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to sleep until a Loewy-designed alarm clock tinkled at 7 a.m., turning him out into a world filled with the products of his night & day dreaming. In his black, beige and bronze bathroom, with its motif of Nubian slaves, he plugged in his Loewy-designed Schick electric razor, used a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch-and-a-half cuffs on the sleeves, which could...
Mornings at 7. Young Henry gets up at 6 a.m. every morning. To save time, he shaves with an electric razor at the breakfast table, manages to read the paper at the same time. He is at his Des Moines office by 7, frequently returns to it at night. "No use of my going to a movie," he explains, "because I just think about the work...
Suddenly he lost his balance. The force of the fall pulled the piton out of the crack. A vertical razor of rock, jutting up from the ledge, cut McNear's rope and he continued down...
This unprecedented procedure set off a series of scandals which startled even the most resigned of Philadelphians. The head of the amusement-tax division hanged himself. A water-department official slashed his wrists with a razor blade (he had been taking bribes for jamming the mechanism of city meters and handing out free water to those who paid off). One official was cited for impeachment and 16 were indicted by a grand jury...
...Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...