Word: shaves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will build a fire in it and if the water freezes in your bucket you can thaw it out enough to shave." "That's fine," declared the colonel enthusiastically. "Eighty per cent of my service was spent under canvas and I don't see much of it on this White House assignment...
...deal in a quiet, pleasant way, he never loses his temper, though he is a martinet about detail. When he is in command, his ship must be spotless, his men equally neat. In only one respect is he himself lax-his beard, which is fast-growing, heavy. Hating to shave, he has tried all types of razor, has lately returned to an old-fashioned straightedge...
...next week will receive the Chemical Industry Medal for 1935. They saw samples of Columbian Carbon Co's carbon black for lacquers, which, ground to particles .000001 centimetre in diameter, is so black that it makes other blacks look brown. If any of them had neglected to shave before breakfast, he could have accepted the free-shave offer of the research man for Schick Dry Shaver, Inc who shaves twelve men everyday to learn what he can about beard problems. ¶ At Harmarville, Pa., near Pittsburgh Gulf Refining Co.'s research subsidiary has built a group of roomy...
Bruised and shaky, with a huge black ring around one eye, Fisticuffer Max Baer had a haircut, a shave and manicure, commiserated with his 238-lb. brother Buddy Baer, who had lost a decision to a Montana heavyweight named Ford Smith right after the big fight.* He wished Louis luck, announced that he would retire to raise white-faced cattle on his California ranch...
Although all men who visit this holy place grow beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...