Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slumped in the barber chair and looked into the big mirror. A blank, "How'd you like it, sir? Short? Medium? Long?--The barber's cagerly flat voice jarred him out of the void...
...Short. Army style." Vag heard his voice too loud in the empty barber shop. Then he said, "Not too short, though--got a date Friday. He watched the barber in the mirror, moving around behind him with the permanent smile. He hardly remembered getting into the chair. All the times before this, ever since his second day in Cambridge, he had stood desperately undecided in the middle of the barber shop floor when the smiling men in the white coats had snapped to attention next to their chairs. It still embarrassed him, though he managed to hide it under...
...midfield there is even less certainty about quarters. Prominently mentioned are veterans George Angell and Ed Barber, as well as Bracket, Jim Conway, and Dave Thompson, up from last year's Freshman squad. The situation is further complicated, in a pleasant sort of way, by the improvement shown by many of the newcomers to the Varsity, among them Bud Lane, Newt Peabody, and tom Allen...
...Barber Machachio carries the idea further by asserting that tipping has always been the same about the Square, from 1898, when he first began working here, to the present time. Even when he shaved ex-President Eliot, he got only the customary ten or fifteen cents extra for a haircut or a shave. With the late President Lowell it was the same dime or fifteen cents for a Burnside trim or a mustache curl. It's always been like that, he said...
...LaFlamme barber, Frank Machachio, longest-serving barber in Cambridge, agrees with partically every barber in the Square that people are forking over about the same "extras" as they did before the war. Tippers at their places of business are still the steady type of customer...