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Word: shaves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PERVERTED ARIEL | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

During the trip Carol neglected to shave before the ingenious folding washstand provided in the individual compartments of all wagons-lits. The correspondents, thoroughly out of humor by morning, reported that "this Hohenzollern scion had obviously not even washed." They further added to his troubles by wiring ahead for whole platoons of cameramen. At Paris the last wheeze of the air-brakes was drowned amid the boom of flashlight powders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROUMANIA: Carol Travels | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...made himself nationally famous by powdering his nose in the Columbia library some months ago must express his laurels in haste to the University of California. Those inconsiderate, Westerners, according to yesterday's New York Times, have gone him one better. Where he only powdered, they bring their shaving-tackle to the lecture-room, lather, rub it in or not according to their preferences in shaving-cream, and shave with as much success as lack of a mirror will allow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATHER AND BLATHER | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...fashioned bull bass" in the Cornell glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DECLINE OF THE HE-MAN | 11/11/1925 | See Source »

...Chicago, barbers decided on a new schedule of prices : shave, 35c ; haircut, 75c ; combination, $1; on Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Night Life | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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