Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supported in a hammock, was taking his ease at his hilltop finca, Santa Julia. "Tacho" Somoza was nursing a cold and spending as much time as possible with his daughter Lillian Sevilla Sacasa and her four children. Tacho laid his head back, presented his broad, tanned cheeks to his barber...
Shave & a Haircut. Harry Truman's moment of victory found him prepared. He had called in a barber, had a shave and a hair trim. He put on a fresh white shirt and a double-breasted blue suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm...
...anarchist had at him with a bomb, or his wife eloped with the letter-carrier. But on missing a train, or slipping on an orange peel, or losing a collar button, or in the presence of a crying baby, an automatic piano, a political heresy, or an incompetent barber-then the ancient craft hath its high uses, and its sweet comforts, and its mild and consoling sinfulness. RICHARD NORRIS Conway...
Last week, San Francisco was learning fast enough who Italo Tajo is. As Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville, his booming and clowning had stopped the show-"the kind of show-stopping," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein, "which makes an unknown artist a star . . . Like Feodor Chaliapin before him, Italo Tajo could easily take to the road with a company playing nothing but The Barber of Seville...
...Story for Strangers (by Marc Connelly; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is told, via flashbacks, to a traveling salesman in a small-town barbershop, and is quite as dull, and ten times as long, as the usual barber's yarn. Subtitled "A Parable," the play is concerned with an undisclosed miracle that has transformed a rascally, coldhearted community into a garden spot of virtue and brotherly love...