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Word: barbering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope pictures. Yet "Monsieur Beaucaire," though moving through the old familiar paces with the thoroughly-shredded plot of the Tarkington satire as a vague backdrop, manages, like most of its siblings, to be pretty funny. This is due, as usual, to Hope's exertions--here as a craven barber trying to fill a French Duke's shoes as swordsman, lover, and bridegroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...from the latter and being admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he elected not to practice law but instead went into the book business. Since then, Mr. I. has acquired a huge stock of assorted writings that fills the basement of his Boylston Street store and that of a neighboring barber shop, in addition to his business "cubby-hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silkhouette | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Several merchants have shown willingness to undertake shopping concessions and the University has begun plans for a grocery store, tailor and barber shops, and a beauty parlor. These, along with the manager's office, will occupy the central portion of the development

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Operation Begins At Harvardevens Housing Project | 10/1/1946 | See Source »

...recent years Flagg has feasted his eyes and practiced his art increasingly in Hollywood. Among his sitters: Greta Garbo ("I was immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Capers & Creatures | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...Victor Show (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Baritone Robert Merrill, in popular and classical music, including Rossini's Largo Al Factotum from the Barber of Seville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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