Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average of 500 meals a day. Its library of some 14,000 volumes includes not only works of general interest but many histories and text books useful in college courses. In addition to reading, game, and lounge rooms, it has a well-equipped pool and billiard room and a barber shop...
Women's barber shops call themselves beauty parlors. Drug stores call themselves ice cream parlors. Clerks call themselves salesmen. Politicians call themselves statesmen. Flappers call themselves young ladies. But scientists call themselves scientists, and only newspapers call them savants...
SWEENEY TODD?Another gaffer of the theatre. The barber villain stirs his enemies into meat-pies, and modern audiences chortle...
SWEENEY TODD?A mid-19th Century barber makes meat-pies of his enemies, thus moving us to mirth where he was wont to curl the hair of our grandfathers...
...plot curdles. Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave. Woe is his, for Sweeney Todd, barber, gnawed by the weevil of avarice, has long had the vile habit of dropping his rich customers through the floor, chair and all, to a subterranean death chamber; there slitting their throats, robbing them, erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last...