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...bilingual sign: "Pas de visiteurs, no visitors," and armed themselves with clubs to keep reporters, photographers and other strangers from disturbing the Dionnes. Dr. Dafoe sent the older five Dionne children, two of whom had developed colds, to live with friends. And Papa Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little...
...David. With 300 followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They are vegetarians. They wear no garments of black, the color of death. They believe that non-sinners never die, that there is always a King David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David's most famed possession-three bearded baseball teams. Travelling about the country these teams, which...
...difficult to train a man who does not shave and seldom takes a bath to make automobile parts with exactness down to one-thousandth of a millimeter. Yet exactitude is just the quality which has enabled the Americans to improve their motors and make them more powerful...
...days wore on Professor Pereda received more gifts-images of the Virgin, jigsaw puzzles. A former woman student, now a teacher, gave him (at his request) a manicure, and one patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed...
...monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy brown beard, four inches long. He practices against his wife, whom experts consider a more accomplished wrestler than her husband. Last week, matched with Joe Savoldi, onetime Notre Dame footballer, who was not allowed to hurl himself at his opponent feet...