Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Starr Jordan, first President of Stanford University, has often remarked: "We do not wish to put the Stanford 'stamp' on a man; each Stanford man is as different as another Stanford man." WILLARD F. BARBER New York City...
...beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant Col. Sam Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz, was being shaved by the ship's barber. Only the barber's steady hand saved him from instant decapitation. As it was, his consular lip was badly gashed. When the storm subsided, the reported sea toll read : 16 ships sunk, 32 beached, 8 abandoned...
...Chicago one Charles Piazza, barber, returning from the hospital where his wife had just borne a boy, found that Chicago's 105th bomb in 1929 had exploded in his house...
...unwanted husbands were invalided home, parents, aunts, uncles continued to live to the embarrassment of poverty-stricken heirs, and Mrs. Fazekas continued to make essence of flypaper. Business expanded. She was soon forced to engage an assistant, one Mrs. Csordas. A third member of the firm was the village barber-undertaker-coroner, Midwife Fazekas' brother...
...Suicide, so-called because that is what he threatens ever to do. He almost becomes normal when his wife comes back to him, but when the Sanatorium burns down she dies and he, ironically, escapes. Then there is a man going blind with what The Suicide calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters who experience a chapter-the-last are: 1) a lady "always wringing something" whom a bull gores; 2) a man who dies of shock when his wife threatens...