Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas were also stored away; TIME'S editors and the members of its business departments made their contributions. One of them was a firsthand account of the significant business expansion going on in the Chicago area and a neat symbol thereof: the sign on a Peoria barbershop which read, "Joe's shop is a two-chair shop...
Died. Flaude Cleveland, 67, spinster bank president (Addison State Bank); in Addison, Mich. Daughter of a saloonkeeper, before she was seven she had a paper route. She rose to shoeshine girl in a barbershop, became a bank janitor in 1907, after 22 years wound up as bank president...
...that they really like Schoenberg's ear-hurting music-and certainly no one is whistling any of his tunes. Forty years ago, after he had written his popular, Wagnerish Transfigured Night (which Antony Tudor used successfully for his ballet Pillar of Fire), Schoenberg had put conventional, barbershop-type harmony far behind him, and plunged into a chromatic wonderland where all twelve tones in an octave are of equal value, and there is no longer any "key." It is a wonderland where few fellow composers have yet dared to take up residence-although just about every nation but Soviet Russia...
...Story for Strangers (by Marc Connelly; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is told, via flashbacks, to a traveling salesman in a small-town barbershop, and is quite as dull, and ten times as long, as the usual barber's yarn. Subtitled "A Parable," the play is concerned with an undisclosed miracle that has transformed a rascally, coldhearted community into a garden spot of virtue and brotherly love...
...Century's barbershop and secretary, its train-to-city phone, shower bath, and doors that open at a touch were already standard equipment on several other "name" trains. Its new dining car seated fewer passengers than the old two-car arrangement, and placed diners with their backs to the scenery. The new roomettes still forced occupants to protrude into the corridor when pulling down...