Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anderson is tall as a barber's pole. He often wears a blazer striped like one. With the deliberate elegance, so typically British, which is seen to best advantage in Australians, Canadians, South Africans and Russians, he strides about. dealing titanic strokes. Tilden occasionally hits as hard as Anderson. Few other players compare with him for power...
...next afternoon police raided a barber shop in Manhattan's Chinatown. They rushed up the stairs and heard feet pattering on the roof. They opened the hatch and saw no one. They went out on the roof to search and a fusillade of shots fell about them from a roof across the streets. Forty shots were fired but no one was hurt. In a safe below they found ten new automatics, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six steel vests. Henry Moy, his brother Frank and other prominent On Leongs stood across the street watching the proceedings...
...BARBER SHOP BALLADS-Edited by Sigmund Spaeth-Simon & Schuster ($2.00). That summer nights may be less hideous and rancid discords less frequently pollute the fine free atmosphere of club porches, tonsorial parlors, moonlight bays, locker rooms and shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical...
...must to all men, Death came to Donn Barber, famed architect. He died last week in Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order...
Born in 1871, Architect Barber was educated at Yale. Upon graduation, he took special courses at Columbia, then at the Beaux Arts, Paris, where he was the ninth U. S. student to receive a diploma. After an apprenticeship in the offices of Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert and Lord & Hewlett, he set up his own firm. His career since then is written in such buildings as: Connecticut State Library, Hartford Aetna National Bank, Aetna Life Insurance, in Hartford; the Department of Justice Building in Washington; and in Manhattan: the New York Cotton Exchange, National Park Bank, the Mutual Bank, the Lotus...