Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annette Island, in U. S. territory. Four years later an act of Congress gave them the land for their own. Today, in their fisheries and canneries, Metlakatla's 466 inhabitants make an average community profit of around $80,000 a year. Every male Metlakatlan owns store clothes, gets barbershop haircuts. Most of them own their own motorboats (value $2,000 to $20,000). The villagers get power from the community hydroelectric plant, recreation in the commu nity's $60,000 public hall, where Metlakatla's 60-piece band sometimes plays of an evening. On Sundays Metlakatlans...
...informal harmonization with friends, Barbershopper Cash applied in May 1938 for a corporate charter in Oklahoma, proclaimed: "In this age of dictators and government control of everything, about the only privilege guaranteed by the Bill of Rights not in some way supervised or directed is the art of barbershop singing. . . ." Local chapters of the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. mushroomed all over the country, now number some 200. Among the 2,000 members: Major Bowes, Groucho Marx, Jim Farley, Bing Crosby, five Southwestern Governors...
Many a U. S. citizen finds it difficult to dissociate barbershop singing from barroom. Not so the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. which rarely mixes liquor with its lyrics, explains simply: "A drunk can't sing." Equally proud is the society of the propriety of its songs, not one of which "you couldn't sing in Church...
...barbershop one day Dr. Korell fell to talking with Professor Charles William Pavey of Ohio State Medical School. He mentioned his experience with glandular fever. Dr. Pavey recognized the disease as infectious mononucleosis, described in 1886 by the Russian Nils Feodorovich Filatov, in 1889 by the German Richard Pfeiffer. Dr. Korell was the first...
Into a San Francisco barbershop marched Herbert Hoover's friend & aide Ben Shannon Allen, cried: "Have to have a haircut before noon. I'm in a hurry." Said The Customer Ahead of him: "You can have my place." "Do you know who that was?" asked the cashier as Allen paid his bill. "He looks familiar," said Allen. Said the cashier: "He is Harold Ickes...