Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre talk. With Alfred A. Knopf to oil the wheels, and Samuel Knopf Sr. to inspect and supervise as business manager, Editor Mencken stoked his engine with a wide variety of engaging combustibles- articles by articulate hoboes and Senators, bishops and Negro poets, Clarence Darrow and Ernest Boyd, a barber, a Mormon. The circulation steamed steadily ahead-42,614 at the end of 1924; 62,323 in 1925; to its peak of 79,531 a year ago. Less than a third of the buyers- about 23,000-are subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane and washed...
...BARBER, M.D. Owens, West...
Royal S. Copeland is the only doctor* in the Senate. One day last week he was urgently summoned. His black hair waving, he ran down to the barber shop. There, anxious barbers stood about a chair. In the chair he found his Democratic friend, Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones of New Mexico, white and immobile. "An attack" spluttered a barber. Seeing no couch in the shop, Doctor-Senator Copeland told the barbers to lay Senator Jones on the floor. He despatched the bootblack for whiskey and had a barber telephone for Rear Admiral Grayson.* The bootblack quickly returned with several containers...
...Cicero is called 'The Count" by his colleagues, for his tales of former glory. He frequently shaved "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, John L. Sullivan, Governor Whitman, William A. Brady. Charles M. Schwab, Andrew Carnegie, George Young* and scores more preferred him to all barbers. Publisher Govin of the Journal of Commerce took him abroad as private barber and interpreter, later helping him start a mineral-water...
...Kern Countyites the mice were, however, no laughing matter. The invasion, which began a month ago, had devastated 100 square miles. Three big oil companies had dug 26 miles of trenches. Horticulture Commissioner Whit C. Barber of California estimated the total property damage...