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Word: razors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been mentally ill for some time, had talked of committing suicide, had told him that she was pursued by demons. Final confirmation of Chloe's story was provided by her belated recollection: "While mother was begging me to hit her with the hammer she asked me for a razor blade. I got one and gave it to her, and watched her slash her wrists." An autopsy confirmed the unsuspected fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...door's handle, he soon discovered that there was no inside handle. The Captain heaved his 14 stone against the door. It would not budge. He lit a match and observed that the mirror over the washstand was fogging from his breath. Scared stiff, he grabbed -a razor and forced it between the door and its frame. This admitted a little air, a chink of light. By diligently manipulating the razor Captain Margesson made a big enough hole to keep breathing, then he went to work on the door catch. Four hours later he staggered out exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Shuffle | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...presidents have been as difficult to dispose of as old razor blades. The vice-presidency would provide not only a place but a use for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...hanker feverishly for an electric razor, but stoutly maintain that his old razor is the only thing that will lick his whiskers. A woman may love to prance giddily to the strains of hot music, but insist that nightclubs bore her, that she would rather curl up with a good book. Instead of going in for statistical questionnaires and surveys. Dr. Dichter talks to people, studies their personalities. He doesn't always believe what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychoanalysis in Advertising | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth to right ear. The British Catholic Herald, after considerable inquiry among Joyce's former associates, stated flatly: "Lord Haw-Haw is William Joyce." The Herald further reported that Joyce had been brought up a Catholic, but that he has since been "entirely dominated by his anti-Semitic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ex-Husband Found? | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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