Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not make speeches, he lectures. His voice is as flat as a Midwest prairie. But he always says what he thinks, and means what he says (example: his two-word admonition to the U.S. people in 1947 to "Eat less"). His wife, Martha, is an ingratiating and razor-sharp platform performer...
Nobody knew how many kits the 45-odd manufacturers in the industry had already sold. But Toni hair wave, the biggest, which Gillette Safety Razor Co. bought out, had alone sold 20,000,000, planned to spend $7,000,000 on ads to boost sales this year. Gillette hopes to lure women out of beauty shops just as successfully as it once lured men out of barber shops...
...keep Sleuth Milland precisely equidistant from himself and the killer takes the kind of nerveless skill required to shave two men with one stroke of a two-edged razor-and produces the same excruciating suspense. Author Fearing's book pulled off the trick very neatly, but Scenarist Jonathan Latimer and Director John Farrow have done an even better job of it in the movie...
Trade Tool. In Memphis, Emett J. Ragland defended himself in court by exhibiting his diploma from Lumpkins Barber College, was nevertheless fined $50 for carrying a razor...
...Hollywood thriller-writer could have staged a more exciting performance than the Varsity hockey team's 1 to 0 shutout of Yale at the Arena Saturday night. The incredible goal-tending of Jack Lavalle and Eli Jimmy Burns, combined with the gruelling attacks of both teams and the razor-thin margin of victory, kept 3,170 fans on the verge of a nervous breakdown right down to the final whistle...