Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bias frequently dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious frenzy...
...were a violet sweater, ruby red lipstick, and gray flannel skirt, proving her Harvard fidelity. "I have trouble with my hose," she said, "but my mother didn't send any razor blades...
Television advertisers are busily knocking together a strange new world. It is a world in which oranges crack jokes, penguins smoke cigarettes, a Botany Mills lamb gambols about in a necktie, razor blades change themselves, and advertising symbols (e.g., Ballantine's three rings) appear and disappear with the ease of Cheshire cats...
...outside pictures. When Boss Zanuck, who sometimes begins to believe his own press-agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want you to play Sophie in The Razor's Edge." Betty knew that it was a part for an actress (it won Anne Baxter an Oscar) and not for her. She coolly refused it. "People would expect me to end up as a mermaid and rise with seaweed in my hair," she said, "and that wouldn...
Shaw fielded the ball. Last week Eversharp got one of his famed penny postcards with the reply: "I have never shaved, never possessed a razor (yours has not yet arrived) and have no intention of removing my beard, though it is kept within bounds by an occasional trimming with scissors. If my example is followed, Eversharp will have to concentrate on electric clippers...