Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troubles-and they were to some extent anticipated-came from the small number of the bids and the inadequacy of the majority of them. It was disappointing to the Board that lines such as the International Mercantile Marine, Luckenbach, Moore and McCormack, Cosmopolitan, C. D. Mallory & Co., and the Barber Line did not make offers. The Board's ray of hope was that such offers as had been made would be improved by the bidders in the ensuing conferences...
Joseph Byrnes: Editor of the Barber's Journal: "I told the master barbers of Atlantic City: 'The time is close at hand when you will be forced to charge one dollar for a haircut...
Saturday will be the closing date of all departments of the Union except the barber shop, according to an announcement yesterday from the office of the Graduate Secretary. The library, the news stand, and the restaurant will be closed on this date, while the barber shop will be continued for another week, though charge accounts will be discontinued on Saturday. The building itself will not be closed until June...
...book is better than the book of "Shuffie Along". True, it has not one scene of the high comic value of the Grocery Store scene, but the humor is more diversified and more widely sprinkled throughout the evening. The Barber Shop scene is the high comedy point, but the band rehearsal of the first scene is not far behind it. The present company lacks comedians of the first rank. One man presents an imitation of Bert Williams, consciously or not, that does not come up to the Bert Williams standard. But the pugnacious, rambunctious wit that is racial and authentic...
...average sporting scrivener should step out of the press box at the Polo Grounds and exchange his ordinary raiment for a Giant baseball uniform there might be a riot. Certainly the sight of a writer's calves in the Old-Glory barber-pole sox of the Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer...