Word: shaven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sadhu is the Sanskrit word for "straight," and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted vermilion, shaven bald or mat-haired, they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred teaching, sage advice and examples of the unworldly life. Inevitably another breed of sadhu arose that was anything but straight. Trading on the enormous prestige of the holy men, these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today...
...Virtually all that today's show poodle has to remind it of its ancestors is an elaborate coiffure that once made sense. The luxuriant ruff left thick from head to hindquarters provided warmth when working outdoors in hunting weather. The short-shorn saddle over the rump and the shaven legs with bracelets of hair over hock and foot allowed the dog freedom of action while swimming and still provided necessary protection against heat and cold...
When her hair grows out, Co Ha will marry the man of her choice. Her father, facing a protracted period of disgrace, went home to count his diminished wealth and mutter imprecations against modern notions. Across the land, Saigon's press reported a sharp increase in shaven-headed maidens, a sharp decrease in arranged marriages. Encouraged, Madame Ngo pressed...
...part, we have always looked forward to the Yale game. It is refreshing to meet our clean-living Rivals Through The Centuries, and see how wonderfully they have progressed since we founded their alma matter a few centuries ago. They dress so nicely, and are so delightfully clean-shaven, and one always knows that they will be such wonderful financial successes in life. We like Yale--it's much milder...
Richard Waring's dupable Cassio is convincing. But it is a mistake for him to be clean-shaven, since Iago makes a pointed reference to his beard. As the love-sick, not-too-bright Roderigo, Richard Easton indulges in the right amount of humor, even incorporating a few Harpo Marxian mannerisms. He properly appears with clean face at the beginning of the play; but, after Iago tells him to disguise his baby-face and increase the manliness of his appearance with "an usurped beard," he should of course don false whiskers for the rest of the drama...