Word: unshorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendly Sock. Lieut. Shortt pleaded, even offered to pay for the haircut (25?). At length Wheeler consented, went off to Tokyo, returned-unshorn. He explained gravely to Shortt that he had only visited a hospital ("I am thinking of being circumcised-as a health measure"). He had also stopped off at a brothel...
After that, Max and his young wife were seldom apart. Together they roamed the bars and byways of Greenwich Village, cleaning up in public toilets, cadging the price of an occasional drink, meal or free flop from old friends. Despite his stubbled chin and unshorn hair, Max managed to preserve a certain courtly Southern dignity, and when the news of his death got around the Village this week, there was genuine sadness. At the San Remo Cafe, Caricaturist Jake Spencer smashed Bodenheim's personal gin glass and proposed a toast. "Max was a splendid type," he said. "He used...
...Walter is a graduate of Tufts. It seemed only logical to cease wearing kachh (pants cut off at the knee), kara (iron bangles on the wrist) and a kirpan (a small dagger). But Walter has always observed two of the five "Ks" dictated by his religion: he wears kes (unshorn hair) and carries a khanga (a ceremonial comb...
...divulges economic, political, financial, military or industrial data which even though not secret are not yet intended for publication." Said an editor of a Buenos Aires financial paper: "From now on I won't even be able to estimate the wool we have on the backs of our unshorn sheep...