Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little fact about Asia came home to me on this Huk trip only after several days of puzzled awareness that something was missing. Even in battalion commanders' quarters there were no bathroom mirrors, no place to shave. I realized very late in the game that my pleasant hosts almost never have to shave...
When an American asked him where he had picked up his English, Argentina's Dictator Juan Peron explained: "I put English records on the gramophone in the mornings while I shave...
...filtering in, bringing the dress, customs and fears of the Old World's Orthodox Jews. Synagogues stand on almost every corner; the streets are full of men with long beards and skullcaps; store signs are written in Hebrew, and their clerks speak Yiddish. Wig salons thrive-many women shave their heads, according to Orthodox custom...
...beachfront in Santa Monica, Zanuck begins a chain-smoking day with one of his eight-inch cigars-the first of 20-and a phone call on his private wire to the studio to find out how movies-his own and competitors'-are grossing around the country. After a shave by Sam ("The Barber") Silver, who comes out from the studio, Zanuck drives his green Cadillac ten miles to the lot, attacks production schedules, mail, memos and telegrams until 1 p.m. Then he takes a sawed-off polo mallet, which he uses as a sort of swagger stick, trots over...
...everything went wrong. Parisi had no way of knowing that his victim had left 20 minutes early to get a barbershop shave. He just fired five shots into the first short, fat man who came out the door-it happened to be a music-publishing executive named Irving Penn. Penn screamed and collapsed, dying. Parisi jumped into a stolen getaway car, driven by one Seymour ("Blue Jaw") Magoon-and found that a gravel truck was blocking the street...