Word: shaves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peter, Emperor of Muscovy, told the gentlemen of his court to shave off their beards. The commandment had a significance beyond the capillary, for the beards of the Russian nobles were copied from the men who lived to the Eastward; the monarch's bare chin was the outward and visible sign of his detestation of the Orient. A wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want...
...What sum did critics lately agree was the correct gratuity for a common shave...
...lounging millonaires be requested to "Send Your Doorman to the Mountains," "Let Your Dollars Shine the Life of the Man Who Shines Your Shoes," "Help the Elevator Boy on His Way Up?" Will hotels display the admonition: "Let Your Barber See Europe?" For 21 years one George Wagner has shaved the face of William H. English, Manhattan banker, accompanying him on business trips in his private car, journeying to his home to shave him on Sundays. Last week Banker English gave Barber Wagner a two months' holiday in Europe. Was this, people asked, the correct tip for Mr. Wagner...
...race seemingly unconnected with the surrounding Mongolian peoples, thought to have migrated to the northern islands of Japan from Manchuria, a remnant of Neolithic stock. They are taller than the Japanese, heavier-built; their hairiness has been exaggerated from the fact that the men never shave and the women, admiring hirsute embellishment, daub themselves with mustache designs in pot-smut. They are bear-worshipers, non-agricultural...
...Alexander bid his soldiers shave...