Word: shave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county supervisors worried long over the cost, got Mr. Moses to shave his plan to $9,250,000. Then they worried over the idea of opening Suffolk County's wild and beautiful seashore to hordes of city trippers and picnickers. Last week they voted 7-to-3 to have no promised land. To $100,000 and 500 men from WPA they added $100,000 of county money to try patching the broken dunes with wire fences and brush jetties, filling in three inlets cut through the beach into the bays...
News-vendors, who are constantly in contact with the public, must look respectable and belong to an honorable corporation. They will have to wear polished shoes and a brown blouse extending below their knees; and they must shave daily. The police will be empowered to take drastic action against defaulters...
...attempt to reduce purchasing power at the same time the President is pouring out $4,500,000,000 in an attempt to increase buying power. They are not going to get one cent from us. ... We won't give them the whiskers from yesterday's shave...
Then came the early teens. "Humming with pseudo-sophisticated nonchalance, we enjoyed our first shave and reminisced on that glorious afternoon when we'd won the game single handed, saved the day, and made the world safe for Democracy. A reaction was only natural for so precocious a youth, and it came in a tendency toward manfully swapping glances with Theda Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts...
...State of Sirmur, India, a barber shaving a customer told such a funny story that the customer jounced with mirth, pushed his cheek into the barber's razor, suffered a disfiguring wound, sued the barber for 200 rupees. Ruled the court: no recovery; the barber was following the traditional practice of his profession; the story was to mitigate the ordeal of the shave; the customer should have restrained his mirth...