Word: shaves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who has taken History 1 knows Peter the Great of Russia, and has labeled him a fine old fellow who went West, pushing against the tide of the Drang Nach Ostne, and came back to make his subjects shave their beards, build a navy, and become generally enlightened...
During the past few weeks there has been evidence that this view of the Lampoon is the correct one. The current issue shows that the Lampoon has got religion, a clean collar, a shave, shine and shampoo, and is reverting with god2ly zeal to its old state of grace. It is a good, clean book for the whole family, and you can show it to Bill Roper too, if he comes around after supper for a Ford ride. The little group of graduate Lampooners in New York, who recently apologized to the world for the Lampoon's latest lapse from...
...coils in the ground at intervals across the finish line; tying a light, magnetized sheet of metal to the runner's waist. The magnet induces brief electric currents in the buried coils as the runner flashes in. Electricity, literally lightning swift, may quicken many a "dead" (tied) heat, shave many a record...
...sniffed, spat, quoted a statement, issued to the press under similar circumstances by Mr. Tunney's predecessor, John L. Sullivan. "I'll fight any - of a - with two fists, any place, any time, for a good cigar. . . . All the training I need is a haircut and a shave...
...keep picked up, but in any event we can afford and actually do afford to do some things not because they pay directly but just because to do so gives us a certain worth while feeling of satisfaction. That is why men wear collars, have their hair cut and shave; and also why girls bob their hair, powder their noses-not to go further into details...