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Word: shave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Willis (Republican): "With regard to Vice President Dawes' speech, I want to say that I am on my way to the barbershop for a haircut and a shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reaction | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

Replied the "Tiger" : "She has a fine black moustache. Tell her to get a shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hirsute | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

Colgate's gives a better shave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN WAXED ENDS WERE WOEFUL | 11/4/1924 | See Source »

...Flint had known how easy it is to shave with Colgate's Rapid-Shave Cream he would undoubtedly have eliminated his whiskers and escaped burial in the landslide that overwhelmed him when the untrammeled citizens of Adams County turned out to exercise their rights of suffrage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN WAXED ENDS WERE WOEFUL | 11/4/1924 | See Source »

...plot curdles. Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave. Woe is his, for Sweeney Todd, barber, gnawed by the weevil of avarice, has long had the vile habit of dropping his rich customers through the floor, chair and all, to a subterranean death chamber; there slitting their throats, robbing them, erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

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