Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Blood, the senior (and narrator), is definitely not the clean-cut type-at least he would hate to think so. He reads Freud and Will Durant and Walter B. Pitkin; when his girl friend tells him she has dreamed of snakes, his eyebrows almost scalp him. His mannerisms, down to the last flickering cheek-muscle, were learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other...
...croquignole process, which revolutionized permanent waves by the simple device of winding the hair around curlers from the tips instead of from the scalp, was patented in the '20s by a Czech named Josef Mayer. In the U. S., Mayer's patents are controlled by the Philad Co., which once licensed equipment manufacturers and collected royalties of at least $80.000 a year. But in 1939 a Federal court ruled that, since the manufacturers did not themselves use the croquignole process, they were exempt from royalties. Thereupon Philad began an attempt to collect $12-up a year from virtually...
...Scalp 'em, swamp...
...might detract from the glamor to be associated with a dashing entrepreneur of naked floor shows, Paramount suggested that Carroll wear a wig in the picture. Carroll refused, explained: "A bald-headed boulevardier has more appeal for women than any clumsy youngster, no matter how well covered is his scalp...
What he did was far more modest, sensible and honest. Apparently, however, in the eyes of numerous people he made a gaffe, although it is difficult not to make one whatever you do when some 20 million of your fellow citizens are out waiting to scalp you. If it was a gaffe, at least it was not an ungenerous or unpatriotic...