Word: shave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss dentists reported their impressions of Los Angeles. Said Dr. Georges Lebet: "Everything here is automatic. Automatic machines toast your bread, pour your soft drinks, change your phonograph records, even shave your face." Said Dr. P. H. Lugeon: "Your beer is nearly frozen. Your beefsteak, vegetables, milk, are frozen nearly hard. Everything is refrigerated, even your young ladies...
...with sales dropping, Gene began to shave prices. Corn dropped a nickel. Finally, at 8 p.m., his truck was empty. Dead tired, he and Winnifred set out for home. It had been a good day and there was more than $100 in the pocket of Gene's heavy black pants...
Bunches of Lies. Criticism of this program sends Earl into spasms of profane counter-denunciation-particularly when it comes from Louisiana's anti-Long newspapers. Reporters who can catch him enjoying the luxury of his daily shave at the King Hotel barbershop can occasionally wheedle some news out of him. But he is adept at dodging, and when tracked down is apt to indulge in nothing more informative than a tirade on the evil inherent in the journalistic mind...
...father always swore when he cut himself with his old-fashioned chin mower. I said: 'Papa, if it hurts you so much to shave, why do you shave?' He replied, 'Egad, I don't know.' And he never shaved again...
After the program, Mlle. Mala stated a few general rules for television makeup. Men should first shave, then apply a foundation cream tinted to suit the complexion. Eye shadow and eyelash cream are also important. Mlle. Mala thinks it is too bad that most men shy away from makeup. Women need a dark foundation to disguise "blotches and blemishes," plenty of shadow for double chins, two different shades of brown powder on the cheekbones, non-running mascara on the eyelids, a touch of eyebrow pencil. Lipstick depends on lighting: Mlle. Mala wore blue on her first TV appearance, last week...