Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the influence of Tondelayo, young Langford gets lazy with the razor, easy with the bottle and sloppy with his ducks. When Tondelayo dances for him the Temptation of St. Anthony looks like a game of pease-porridge-cold. After young Langford marries her. she stops calling him awyla ("my man"), whines for new bangles, begs him to beat her. When he refuses, she starts calling the unwilling Witzel awyla, does her best to poison her husband. By the time his starchy successor is saying "Blahsted hot today," superheated Langford is steaming down the Congo, Britain-bound...
Consumer Goods. Most retail shops have closed. Those still functioning, like Moscow's five-story Mostorg department store, have little more than rows of empty counters. Housewives can rarely get pots & pans, chinaware, hairpins, combs, brushes, soap. Men cannot buy razor blades, pens or watches...
...Negroes admire. Sixteen new Binfords made his one-man show last week at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries look like a black-belt village on Saturday afternoon. The canvases showed Negroes playing harmonicas, shooting craps, teaching Sunday school, and a vigorous study of two bucks locked together in a razor fight (one of Painter Binford's childhood memories). In most of these pictures, somber tones of the sooty bodies and faces stood out in contrast to the brilliant light of a lamp, the yellow interior of a church at night, the flame of a match. All reveal Artist Binford...
...Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...
...razor-sharp blow was dealt Crimson football hopes yesterday when the powers that be announced that left tackle George Hibbard and right end Len Cummings will be unable to see action this Saturday against Pennsylvania...