Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mercy of international swindlers who coveted a package of letters in her possession. But the swindlers were not to prevail, for soon an amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five minutes when he announced in his croaking voice that she was obviously fond of Chopin. What criminal could have hoped to elude such...
Religionist Potter, onetime Bible expert for the defense in the famed Evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn. (1925), resigned a year ago from the Universalist Church. He has been a Baptist, a Unitarian. Short, clean-shaven, getting bald, fond of colored neckties, he has a voice which carries well...
...going, but where did they come from?" The answer was : they came from Canada, from a farm not far from Toronto. The history of Brother Frederick is a good deal the shorter of the two. He is 13 years the younger. He is only 42, tall, dark, clean-shaven. His business career has been mainly in Canada although more than once he has joined forces with his brother on both sides of the border. He is a director of the Bank of Toronto and in a chain of Canadian enterprises allied with his brother's interests...
...Later, Mr. Palmer's able son, Carleton H. Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb's tooth paste), healthy (Squibb specifics and much horse backing at Fairfield, Conn., where he is a master-of-hounds and keeps an airplane), President Palmer's policy has been to market standard and recognized medicines under their...
...banquet to Detective Tokuda was arranged. A long table was set up in the station house. Detective Tokuda, in a handsome grey kimono, sat at the head while smiling policemen and bespectacled detectives sat down to rice, pineapple and many a bottle of strong Japanese beer. Even the stern, shaven-headed Captain of Police condescended to drink a foaming glass or two to honor his subordinate...