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Word: shave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three big camps are now permanent prisons where Communist agitators, homosexuals, disgraced Nazis, Jewish university professors, Protestant conscientious objectors are thrown together in common cells. They wear coarse, striped uniforms, their heads are cropped, they shave only once weekly. The Jews wear yellow badges and the homosexuals pink, and few steps are taken to prevent Jewish adolescents from being attacked or molested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Secret Policeman | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...electric shaver is the culmination of years of effort by scientists and research men to help those unfortunate individuals who shave every morning, and then find that at five o'clock they are right back where they were in the morning. And yet what would you have them do? You, you heartless and unforeseeing fiends, would have them look at the radio section to make sure that they don't disturb your programs. this is of course only the beginning of your program ... Let me assure you ... that we "electric shavers" shall fight you tooth and nail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nemesis by Air | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...perfect gift for a man's Christmas is an electric razor to make his morning shave quick and easy. A complete line of these useful gifts is carried by John H. Derby, Jeweler, in Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DERBY'S FEATURES ALL MAKES ELECTRIC RAZORS FOR GIFTS | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

Derby carries the Schick Shaver, the Gillette Dry Shaver, the Sunbeam Shave master, the Remington Rand Close-Shaver, the Packard, and the new Glide Shaver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DERBY'S FEATURES ALL MAKES ELECTRIC RAZORS FOR GIFTS | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

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