Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spot. In Little Ferry, N.J., Barber Frank Circkirillo shaved off the whiskers of a new customer, recognized him as the man who stole his boat five years ago. Plying his razor, he drew a confession of guilt, then released him when the customer showed his Navy enlistment blank...
Fire, flood and boom all swept Alaska last week. The fire swept through Seward, southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The blaze started in the Second Chance Barber Shop, raged for eight hours, destroyed half the town (pop. 949). Army officers set up emergency kitchens, found shelter for the homeless. In the rest of Alaska, men were fighting not fire but water...
Sinse I had to quit subscribin for TIME I ben buyin it off a barber onct a month an payin for same out of hare cut money my woman leaves me take out the box an him cutting my hare two thurds eech time for what is left insted of all over. If twant shes turibel neer sigted Id have ketched hell an she wuld have busted the barber an now theys compney comin an I dasent do it no more for qite a spel nor wont git to reed it out in the barn like I ben. This...
...Observatory's yard, an amateur, Carl Joseph Redland, in daylight hours a barber in the University Barber Shop, displayed a 12 1/2-inch reflecting telescope which he had made entirely by hand, even to iron-cast mountings, and the mirrow which is ground to a focal test accuracy of a millionth of an inch...
Another heckler disturbed a Rome broadcast of The Barber of Seville. Still another broke into Italian broadcasts from Athens with such snorts as "The Italian Empire is finished...