Word: tufting
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...Production Board ordered razor blades cut to one a week for each shaver. Out cropped a lush, thickety growth of feature stories and beard pictures; the Smith Brothers sprouted back into the news; radio comics combed their files frantically for beard jokes, from B for beavers, to T for tuft. But the full text of WPB's order proved the best joke of all. As late as 1940 one blade a week per man was all the nation used anyway...
...full field scrimmage at 3:30 o'clock today, a less-practiced Tuft's squad should be easy meat for the Crimson...
With a fine crop of Washington socialites sitting under her domineering auctioneering spell, fat, party-witted Elsa Maxwell raised $10 for the R.A.F. by knocking down an alleged tuft of George III's beard...
Last week Louis Raemaekers, now grey, bespectacled and tuft-bearded at 71, was once more in Manhattan. He had arrived in June, a refugee via England from Brus sels, where he made his home for 20 years. He liked Germans even less than in World War I. Said he on arriving: "The ideas that the old German aristocrats had were not as bad as those of the rogues now in power." Last week, when a show of Raemaekers' drawings, old & new, was opened in Manhattan's Holland House gallery, he said: "People say I hate the Germans...
Died. Ford Sterling, 55 (real name, George F. Stitch), tuft-bearded, swizzle-eyebrowed chief of the Mack Sennett Keystone Cops later a stock cinemactor; of thrombosis; in Hollywood, Calif...