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...that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already issuing...
...physical than intellectual," "the majority of mankind notoriously and indisputably do not . . . possess the organ by which poetry is perceived." But he himself, while shaving in the morning, has to watch his thoughts because, "if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases...
Such was the four-masted barque Parma, setting out early last March. In 1931 the Australian writer-adventurer Alan Villiers with a syndicate, bought her, from a Hamburg break-up yard. A onetime German nitrate trader, she was about to become razor blades and sardine cans. A fellow-buyer was the man Villiers calls "the best sailor in the world": Finnish Captain Ruben de Cloux, 48, 35 years in sail, 18 years in the Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around...
...established the Partida de la Porra, the Party of the Bludgeon, to beat and shoot opposition out of existence. For a brief period a female Porra was set up among husky prostitutes who attacked the wives and daughters of anti-Machadoans on the streets, ripping their clothes off with razor blades. Violence begets violence. In 1931 after the collapse of ex-President Menocal's abortive revolution (TIME. Aug. 17. 1931 et seq.) the A. B. C. was established to murder and bomb the Porra and other Machado henchmen. Strange as it seems careful observers believe that...
...well-versed in Talmud and the laws. His is an honorable profession. He takes a rigid examination before competent authority in all the laws of shechitah and trefah. The length of the shochet's knife must be twice the width of the throat to be cut, must be razor-sharp and unnicked. Before slaughtering, the shochet carefully says: "Blessed are Thou . . . who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us concerning slaughtering." If many animals are being killed at the same time, one blessing is enough. After the blessing, there should be no irrelevant conversation...