Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night passed and jaws grew blue with dawning whiskers, the official barber of the House of Commons was summoned from his bed. With voracious appetites the members sought the House Restaurant, consumed 1,200 eggs, 2,500 rashers of bacon, 3,000 cups of tea and coffee...
...Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage. But one seldom meets anything else to match this. It is a crime against the gods of high romance for so matchless a string of yarns to be so drably treated
...enter the wards with music in his throat Bending over to change a dressing he will flood his patient with, perhaps, the rhapsodic Prize Song from Die Meistersingers. Even whetting his scalpel, even plying it amid quivering tendons and tissue, he will chant a soft aria from The Barber of Seville. Aside from the pleasure it gives his effervescent nature, Dr. Hybbinette believes- and last week's flood of felicitations seemed to bear him out-that his hospital singing cheers patients to recovery, banishes their fear of his knife...
...Sherman Anti-Trust Law and of the Clayton Act. Defendants named are: Ward Food Products Corp., Ward Baking Co., General Baking Corp., Continental Baking Corp., United Bakeries Corp., William B. Ward, Howard B. Ward, William Deininger, Paul H. Helms, J. W. Rumbough, B. E. Peterson, George G. Barber, George B. Smith. The petition charges that since 1921 William B. Ward and his associates have planned to bring substantially all the wholesale bakeries of the U. S. under single control and to eliminate all competition in selling products and buying ingredients...
...peasant and working classes", continued the noted economist, "are not only given a free education by the state, but they are even paid to go to school unless furnished with ample outside means. This aid from the government includes tuition, food, lodging pocket money, and even baths and barber shop attention...