Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Ray, an 80-year-old barber of Lowell, Ohio (pop. 1,000), was still using the same wooden chair and the same leather soap bowl with which he started barbering 58 years ago, and still charging the same prices: haircut 15?, shave...
Then the Security Council appointed the U.S.'s Ralph Bunche as Bernadotte's temporary successor. Bunche is a brilliant American Negro, son of a Detroit barber and grandson of a southern slave; a Ph.D. (Harvard), he was professor of political science at Howard University, specialized in colonial problems, served in OSS during the war, joined the State Department and finally became director of U.N.'s trusteeship division...
There is one necessary detail which must have been overlooked by Dr. Inman when he treated the eight-year-old boy unsuccessfully: saliva must be applied before brushing the teeth, and before eating anything. As my informant, an ancient German barber, told me: "Schpittle iss purrzon...
...original plan for Operation Coronet had been to prevent just this by slicing in between Markos and the Albanian border. The taking of Mount Ammouda, in the northern cornerstone of the Gramos redoubt, finally slid the knife in almost far enough to do the job. Reported TIME Correspondent Mary Barber...
...screen, Funt merely adds a hidden camera and proceeds as before. He pretends to be a hideously amateurish barber or an irreducibly bureaucratic clerk ("You got that filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But such disadvantages are more than compensated by what the audience sees and hears. Funt is a highly resourceful ad-libber, and his victims are life itself about as pure as the screen can ever catch...