Word: talcumed
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...clock, De Sapio had begun the workday that would last for 18 hours (seven days a week). His wavy black hair, streaked at the temples with silver, was meticulously combed. The talcum was in place. He wore the tinted glasses that are his trademark. He sat at a grey, formica-topped kitchen table and, in the manner of a man aware of his clothes, hiked up his big shoulders, thereby pulling up his coat-sleeves to reveal his gleaming cufflinks. Passing through the kitchen was De Sapio's 17-year-old daughter Geraldine (whose fierce pride in her father...
Kitchen-Table Medici. The new kind of tiger keeps his nails closely trimmed and highly polished, spreads a heavy coating of talcum over his blue-shaven jaws, wears dark blue suits bought (price range: $75-$90) at Abe Stark's Brooklyn store, has the worldly and weighted mien of a Medici, and goes by the nickname of "The Bishop." He lives in a four-room apartment furnished in a style something less than half way between 1920 Grand Rapids and 1955 Park Avenue. There, one recent morning, Carmine De Sapio was taking his own sort of grassroots samplings...
...days, before pool had its name changed and went highbrow, competition in all forms of billiards was keener. And the best shark in the business was not too proud to indulge in a little gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew...
...Mary Crocker and Sol Schwade. The rest of the cast is less able, below the generally high standard, and lacking the extenuation of playing tough parts. However, only Theodore von Kamecke, III, who is asked to play a man considerably older than his own age, with just some talcum in his hair for support, seems actually to drag...
...powdered, rouged and bewigged almost every U.S. star of stage, screen and TV, and invented special makeups for each medium. By retailing the same kind of theatrical glamour to housewives as well, it has grown into a cosmetic giant, with some 200 different kinds of lipstick, face powder, talcum, cologne, mascara, face cream, shampoo and soap. In 1953 alone, Davis Factor and Max Factor Jr., the brothers who run the company as chairman and president, counted net sales of $19 million in 101 countries, with profits...