Word: razors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the steps of the state capitol Frederick John Kasper, 27, the tall, hawk-faced agitator from Camden, N.J., began to whip up the crowd. "The Constitution of the U.S. gives you the right to carry arms," he said. "If one of these niggers pulls a razor or a gun on us, we'll give it to 'em . . . When they fool with the white race they're fooling with the strongest race in the world, the most bloodthirsty race in the world." Hot-eyed Rabble-rouser John Kasper mentioned the name of one of Nashville...
...Springdale, Ala., was talking to his girl friend on the road in front of her home one night last week when six hooded men drove up, stopped, jumped out, grabbed Aaron and stuffed him into their car. The men took Aaron to a deserted shack, castrated him with razor blades and then poured turpentine into 'the wound...
...fast that she was picked up for speeding. But apart from a damaged windshield, her Jag was still in good condition. Geordie finished far up in the overall standings (behind five Volkswagens), easily earned her three prizes, and went home with $1,215 plus assorted trophies, including an electric razor and a supply of stockings...
...Negroes who serve Brocton's first families and are treated by them as near equals precisely because they make no unseemly claims to equality, e.g., in Arthur Winner's church, the Negro sexton deferentially takes communion last. Racially barbed is Cozzens' depiction of Eliot Woolf, a razor-sharp New York lawyer and a Jew-turned-Episcopalian whose "astute smelling-out of every little advantage . . . outside due process" makes Arthur Winner slightly queasy...
...many falls in that mad dash to lower the set as soon as the commercial came on. Maybe somewhere in the country there is a viewer who reacts to that sudden rush of sound by saying, 'Darling, do watch this, isn't it fantastic what that razor will do to the hidden beard?' Maybe . . . but if they have to get up and lower the volume, someone in the room is going to say, 'Listen, while you're on your feet, see what Steve Allen is doing, or better still, turn...