Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicking was done in Labor Leader Phil Murray's luxurious quarters in the "Bungalow" on the Morrison Hotel's top (42nd) floor. To this spacious $55-a-day suite-living room (with grand piano), dining room, bar, kitchen, three bedrooms, and even a place to put a barber chair-came Vice President Wallace, 45 minutes after he reached Chicago. He climbed up the back stairs from the 41 st floor to escape attention. Here also came Senators Guffey and Pepper, and all but two of the six Cabinet members who attended the convention...
...Barber-Shop Harmony. In Paterson. N.J., ten businessmen, tired of waiting their turn in their favorite barber's chair, bought the shop and hired the barber for their exclusive...
...Massey's barbershop at 3306 Main Street, Kansas City, a big, muscular man, generously daubed with powder and witch hazel, eased himself out of a barber's chair. He had just had a haircut, shave, shampoo, scalp massage and shoe shine-"the works." Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. But last week his pay envelope held $140, and he now frankly enjoyed these little male luxuries-everything except a manicure...
...automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber in the mining camp of Platinum, near the Arctic Circle. He went to Molokai and wrote about the lepers. He flew around South America. And for most of the five years he worried...
...these soldiers, and their millions of buddies on troop transports, in Italian barber shops, in transport planes going over the Hump, in the dreary routine of guarded life in enemy prison camps, the invasion was a shot in the arm. Their eyes, too, were on the Normandy coast...