Word: stropping
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...Philip was such a slob. At a dressy dinner at Chesterfield House, he gobbled so earnestly at a plate of gooseberries topped with whipped cream that his face was soon lathered. Humiliated before his guests, Chesterfield quipped to Philip's servant: "John, why do you not fetch the strop and the razors? You see your master is going to shave himself." When Philip botched his maiden speech in the House of Commons, Chesterfield finally scrapped the dream that he would ever make a man, or even a manikin of distinction...
...pined for more & more entertainment and he got it -almost always with the encouragement of his parents, who discovered that blood & thunder would pacify him almost as effectively as Seconal, and that cutting off his comic books would reduce him to obedience faster than the old-fashioned razor strop...
...approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
Brown, getting out the razor strop, wanted his colleagues to know that it hurt him more than it did Roosevelt. He was simply expressing the "grave concern among many of the friends of this fine young man over the fact that he is not here as much as they would like to see him." But the fact was, said he, that Roosevelt had only answered 60 out of 129 roll calls since last June; out of 65 important measures he had voted...
Observers gasped as a reluetaut shoulder strop slid down in the direction of her elbow, but Marie merely chuckled. "I can hold it up from behind," she averred, leaning forward to clasp her dimpled knees, the better to display a small jewel-encrusted watch on her left wrist...