Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevan as a Tory-baiter, Manny kept the House of Commons in session for 20 hours, in the first all night sitting of the new Parliament. Those who stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath and a shave, a weary Tory brigadier asked him to get his throat cut, too. For talking back to the chair, Left-Winger Sydney Silverman, a tricky little hairsplitting parliamentarian, was suspended (for five days) by a vote...
...history." In his studio in Manhattan's McDougal Alley, Sculptor Jo Davidson was modeling a World War I statue, to be entitled France Aroused. Gobbets of clay and drops of sweat impacted into a hot mulch in his bottomless black beard. "Why don't you shave it off?" tittered his model, who was posing coolly without a stitch. Davidson flew out to the barber, soon emerged as smooth as Tweedledee. When he got home, Mrs. Davidson took one look at the close-cut sward and shrieked: "You are awful-you are terrible-don't come near...
...realized something that hasn't occurred to me recently. We are the Before-Our-Time Generation." We grew up with a rush, many of us before we hit 20 And why not? Millions were overseas, som wounded and killers of fellow men before we ever had to shave . . . Upon returning horn with a chance of a free education, we combined that, many of us, with marriage an parenthood; and still in our very early 20s. Yes, we're a generation who can't remember when a bitter war wasn't raging somewhere Why, the first newspaper...
...freshman. On the affirmative answer he is told to get down to the freshman meeting quick in such and such a hall. The freshman, not suspecting fraud and deceit, then goes out into the hall, where he is jumped on by a squad of sophomores who shave a strip down the top of his hair with a pair of clippers. When so marked it takes more than a hat to conceal the class of the victim...
Pots & Pans. Such machines take months to design, months more to make. Because of their special uses, they cannot be mass-produced. Even such standard products as milling machines (see cut), which bore, grind and shave metal, are virtually handmade. Cincinnati Milling turns out only ten or twelve a week. Tool builders are beset by shortages of such components as bearings, valves and clutches. Said one New England toolman: "You hate to see a machine standing there, all completed except for a lousy little electric starter. You not only can't deliver it to the man who needs...