Word: shave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months had taught him much. Soon he would doff the disguise and go back to Russia. Possible candidates for whippings and roastings drifted through his mind. As for his people, he would change their mode of dress, force them to shave their beards, compel them to smoke. A navy second to none and Russia modernized. . . . All in good time...
Most of his story is concerned with his excitingly sensible struggles against the traditional, noble boobery of muddled old England. Now that it is safely over, he admits it was a close shave. "Reckless and unintelligent handling brought us almost to the rim of catastrophe ... we were saved largely by the incredible folly of our foes." The thing that nearly got England down, says Lloyd George, was the submarine campaign. He implies that if the Admiralty had had their way, by June, 1917, England, and consequently the Allies, would have been spurlos versenkt. The Admiralty wanted more destroyers...
Next morning Mr. Farley detrained at Kansas City, got a shave, went to 9 o'clock mass, attended a breakfast of 70 potent Democrats. "Many people won't believe me," he told them, "but this trip is not connected with politics in any way." Thereafter he attended a double-header baseball game, a national convention dinner given by his brother Elks, a theatre. Next morning he kissed a few babies, made a 20-minute rush inspection of the post office, shook hands with all employes, demanded "How are you, young fellow?" or "Are they treating you all right...
...bilingual sign: "Pas de visiteurs, no visitors," and armed themselves with clubs to keep reporters, photographers and other strangers from disturbing the Dionnes. Dr. Dafoe sent the older five Dionne children, two of whom had developed colds, to live with friends. And Papa Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little...
...David. With 300 followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They are vegetarians. They wear no garments of black, the color of death. They believe that non-sinners never die, that there is always a King David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David's most famed possession-three bearded baseball teams. Travelling about the country these teams, which...