Word: shave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They could murder me with a shave...
...Shave...
...Sell Hetch Hetchy power elsewhere-perhaps to the publicly operated irrigation districts in the valley. This Jim Black would not oppose. It would leave P. G. & E. in control of the San Francisco market, which provides 23% of P. G. & E.'s gross. But it would shave P. G. & E.'s profits from this market, since costlier power than Hetch Hetchy's would have to come from P. G. & E.'s own turbines and stand-by plants. Last week P. G. & E. common, a Wall Street blue chip, dropped 1¾ points...
...Cyclops (Paramount) recounts, with a slight flavor of sadism, what goes on when a shave-pate, myopic, six-foot-two scientist (Albert Dekker) acquires an up-to-date laboratory in the Amazon jungles and a mania for reducing human beings (by radium treatment) to a height of some 13 inches. Victims of this scientific zeal are Dr. Cyclops' nosy colleagues (Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian...
...father was a samurai-one of those ferocious retainer-warriors who wore two swords sharp enough to shave with, who scorned money because their liege lords supplied them with houses, clothes, food, concubines, whatever else they needed...