Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should a gunmaker go into the oil business? Hawley's stock reply: "Why not? Hell's bells, look at Harry Sinclair [president of Sinclair Oil Corp.]. He was a Kansas druggist. And Frank Phillips [board chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co.]. He was a barber...
...your cut line under the picture of the advance-zone barbershop with its witty price list (TIME, May 8) you attempt to interpret G.I. humor, with I wonder what results. The barber probably thought his manicure "for officers only" was just as funny as the one about awarding the Purple Heart for his razor nicks...
Cropped. In Murphysboro, Ill., an optimistic barber overheard Farmers Bill and Arthur Guetterslau complaining about their sour luck, promptly traded a haircut and a shave for 150 acres of flooded wheat...
Rising to the emergency, President Morinigo hustled the prophet off to jail, called the prison barber. Now Bauer, beardless, lives in a little house near...
There was Thomas Neglia, reputed North Side gambling king. He was already in a reclining position, getting a barber shop shave, when hoodlums rubbed him out. John Pisano, a small-time gangster, was shot at the wheel of his car. The gunmen who murdered James D'Angelo, a gambler and saloonkeeper, trussed his limp body up with a clothesline, left it in the trunk of his automobile...