Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went through the Khyber Pass laden with British-bought, condemned French rifles and ammunition for the use of Nadir's armies. Altogether in the past seven months some 22,000 such rifles, with ammunition, have been shipped up through the Pass to Nadir. Object: to prevent the pants-shave-&-champagne regime of Amanullah from returning (TIME, Sept...
...President Hoover earlier in the week whittled $11,000,000 out of the Department of Agriculture's expenditures this year, hoped to shave away another $20,000,000 next year. The amount of reductions continued to seem small compared to the size of the deficit. Last week the President announced that the June 30 deficit would be "from about...
...beard has earned for Bob Scripps a good deal of raillery, which he quietly relishes. Driving across the U. S.,* he says, he one day neglected to shave. For amusement he "let it grow," toyed with it from week to week. Amusement it may have been at the start; but the beard is now becoming part of the grave, punditical figure which Publisher Scripps suggests as he pens learned treatises on economics. Once more the organization is getting an Old Man. Something in the atmosphere of the Scripps-Howard offices suggests that this was necessary, that the subordinates feel that...
...course, advantages to this manner. The extreme self-possession of the average Princeton man gives him the somewhat meretricious air of having a vast knowledge of the world and its ways, a quality that is revered everywhere. He is inclined to cultivate the social graces, to have his daily shave, shine, shower, and shampoo, and to wear the right clothes on the right occasions; hence he is a very desirable member of the society in which he moves. But the fact remains that he is a hard person to know for what he really is, that sooner or later...
...advice latent in the accompanying press from Princeton's daily carries with it a real Message. For those who have already experienced the shave, shower, shine, and shampoo sequence, it will be welcome corroboration. To those super-sophisticates for whom this little round of activity has lost its first blush of freshness, it offers consolation and reward...