Word: barber
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fingernails would give interesting and engrossing employment for a couple of days to the average chemist. His hair, if it chance to be curly, is allowed to curl unchecked over his manly brow; if nature has made it straight, it wanders forlornly about in every direction until some compassionate barber, who is moderate in his charges, mows it down with unsparing shear. From these indications his general appearance may be imagined...
Z.TWO waiters from the hall were heard discussing the relative merits of their barbers. One was highly incensed with the poor workmanship of his barber, and advised his friend never to go near him. Fancy our horror at overhearing his colleague inquire if this barber was plain or colored...
...different stores of Cambridge supply the student with almost every minor necessary of his life, but in one point they are deficient: we want in Harvard Square or thereabouts a first-class, clean barber-shop, with experienced workmen. That such an establishment would yield satisfactory profit to the owner there can be no doubt, while to us it would be a long-needed convenience...