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Word: barbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shaving mirror. Husbands and wives are the chief butt of Lardnerian irony, nor has he yet exhausted his variations on the subject. "The Love Nest," "Who Dealt?" and "Reunion" - all connubia- are the three best tricks in this new bagful, unless you choose "Haircut," wherein a smalltown barber unconsciously reveals his hero as a downright skunk. Most of the stories reflect the writer's present environment (Manhattan), figuring producers, stage folk, song-johnnies and the like. In "Women" he is true to his old love- ball players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Connubia | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Again the world's record for a hundred yards has been beaten; again the wind was at the runner's back. Philip Barber, running in front of a Pacific breeze last week in San Francisco, made the distance in 9 5/10 sec., beating by 1/10 sec. the accepted record, tying the mark recently set by Roland Locke of Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Again | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...Social Celebrity. Adolphe Menjou in the part of a small-town barber who scaled Manhattan society, is about the same as usual. Mr. Menjou makes a point of being unfailingly amusing. He has to help him in this venture an exceedingly personable and promising newcomer called Louise Brooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...barber who always needs a haircut and the tailor whose clothes never fit him, then it is the economics professor who makes unwise investments-at least he seldom causes a sensation by making brilliant ones. But the foolish economists of Columbia University will be benefited by a scheme projected there last week, a scheme that is probably unique among college faculties. Shrewd astronomers, canny classics scholars, practical esthetics lecturers- in fact, all Columbia's staff-were invited to pool their investments in a faculty fund to be handled by three trustees. The benefits promised: services of competent counsel, diversification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pool | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Engaged. "Peggy Hopkins Joyce" actress, originally Margaret Upton, daughter of a Virginia barber to one Stanford E. Comstock, Miami realtor. Her other husbands: Everett A. Archer, Sherbourne Hopkins, Philbrick Hopkins Jr. James Stanley Joyce, Count Gostd Morner. All were divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 26, 1926 | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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