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Gillette   /dʒɪlˈɛt/   Listen
Gillette

noun
1.
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932).  Synonym: King Camp Gilette.






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"Gillette" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Immigrant Rural Communities"; Carver, "Changes in Country Population"; Coulter, "Agricultural Laborers"; Davenport, "Scientific Farming"; Dixon, "Rural Home"; Eyerly, "Cooeperative Movements among Farmers"; Foght, "The Country School"; Gillette, "Conditions and Needs of Country Life"; Gray, "Southern Agriculture"; Hartman, "Village Problems"; Hamilton, "Agricultural Fairs"; Henderson, "Rural Police"; Hibbard, "Farm Tendency"; Kates, "Rural Conferences"; ...
— Rural Life and the Rural School • Joseph Kennedy

... Gillette, who has been acting for over forty years, always smokes cigars in the parts he plays is because he is very nervous when ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... When Mr. Gillette undertook to make a play out of the Sherlock Holmes stories, which were not really dramatic, however ingeniously packed with thrilling surprizes, he seized at once on the sinister figure of Professor Moriarty, glimpsed only for a moment ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews

... his reputation for veracity, by a full recital, in the presence of strangers, of the wonders he had seen. He said that he did not wish to be regarded as a liar by those who were unacquainted with his reputation. But the accounts which he gave to Hauser Gillette and myself renewed in us our determination to visit that region during the following year. Mr. Folsom, however, sent to the Western Monthly of Chicago a carefully prepared account of his expedition, which that ...
— The Discovery of Yellowstone Park • Nathaniel Pitt Langford

... which it lies about forty miles to the westward. The northern half of these mountains is known as the Black Range, and was the center of considerable mining excitement a year and a half ago. It is there that the Ivanhoe is located, of which Colonel Gillette was manager, and in which Robert Ingersoll and Senator Plumb, of Kansas, were interested, much to the disadvantage of the former. A new company has been organized, however, with Colonel Ingersoll as president, and the reopening of work on the Ivanhoe will ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various



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