Word: shave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatness" to a preoccupation with sartorial expertness and a will to "belong". Most of the current criticism in regard to this institution centers around its familiar indifference to the press of the trousers or the shine on the shoes. It is true that a large number of men do shave daily but it is hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point...
...will be surprised at the amount of murder you can get away with. Never buy a suit of clothes unless you can get an extra pair of trousers. Keep one suit of clothes pressed every week. Never buy shoes unless you buy shoe trees for them. Keep them shined, shave yourself and never wear the same collar at night which you wear...
...rested. The Question Mark ended its airy sentence. After 150 hours. 40 minutes, 16 seconds aloft, the plane came to earth. Out of the fuselage stumbled the crew, shouting greetings. For Lieutenant Quesada, a dish of ice cream; for Sergeant Hooe, a dress suit; for Major Spatz, a shave ; for them all and for the Question Mark there was the acclaim which they had won by keeping a seven days' vigil, so they might snatch from the clouds all existing records...
Other innocent lopings: "Won't You-Pull Over?", "Should Admirals Shave?", "The Temptation of Anthony," "The Origin and Growth of the Tiller Girls...
...Among the advertised products which the Batten company contributes to the combined concern are Armstrong Linoleum; Colgate products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard...