Word: shaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly packed off home via air. His conclusions: "Truck drivers are the friendliest people of all; they bought me a couple of meals and let me ride practically all the way. And one of them gave me-how do you say it?- four bits-fifty cents-for a shave and haircut. The rest of the people are a bunch of damned snobs...
...street car which was the original of Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's famed Toonerville Trolley made its last trip. For the lugubrious occasion Pelham became Toonerville. Pelham residents whom Cartoonist Fox caricatures in Toonerville Folks acted their parts-Conductor Dave Campion (The Skipper). stopped the car to get a shave, load a passenger on the roof; Commuter Robert A. Cremins (The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang), flew into a pet; Fireman Jack Ehrman (The Powerful Katrinka), pushed a battered auto off the tracks with one hand; Tree-climber William Scharr (Mickey McGuire) set off firecrackers. That evening at the Pelham Country...
...sincere or mercenary. Assured, by a dictaphone which Mrs. Antibus had placed in Mrs. MacDonald's room, that Mrs. MacDonald was sincere, he had called on Mrs. Antibus at her apartment where Mrs. MacDonald had joined them and where police later found her dressed in shorts watching him shave...
...that every Congressman could have 2,500 copies of Bloom on the Constitution to distribute free. A roll-call was demanded on the question and Sol Bloom fretted nervously while the "Nays" rolled up impressively. But so did the "Yeas." He got his money by a close shave...
...window into the sunlight and the courtyard of the almost deserted House. "By gosh, he yawned, "It's a good day. The three hundred and sixty-fifty, or something like it, and I see by the Crimson they've got another Commencement coming round. I guess I'll shave...