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Re: leading beards
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Mark Rabinowitz <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Rabinowitz <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:53:48 -0400
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I think it more likely that they were whiting them further as lead oxide
powder was a common white pigment.  Perhaps this was part of the "dotty old
man" routine as the more they inhaled the stuff the dottier they got.

Sign me: Brain dead

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Follett <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Painting wood shingles


>On the subject of lead, paint, salad or otherwise.
>
>Kathy reading Trollope this last weekend mentioned a reference to men
leading
>their beards. We are curious if venal older men of the 19th c. were in the
>habit of using a lead comb in order to darken the color of a whitened
beard?
>
>][<en
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