Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evil work went on. It was carried on by his underlings: Seymour Weiss, who once ran Huey's favorite barbershop and who handled the swag and kept no records; Abe Shushan, the dry-goods dealer who became president of the Levee Board; James Monroe ("Doc") Smith, president of the university; and big George Caldwell, superintendent of buildings at L.S.U. There were others, like Robert Maestri (rhymes with pastry), the conservation commissioner who later became New Orleans' mayor. And there was Earl, Huey's less talented brother. "I ain't like Huey," Earl admitted. "I gotta...
...McBride's, the Oxford Grill, Club 100, and other Square emporiums, bouncers and bosses have enjoined the chanters to silence their serenading At last abandoning their attempts at mixing beer and barbershop, the Dunces settled in spiritless Hazen's lunch counter...
Afternoons he napped, or did some light reading. Evenings were quietly convivial. Once he went down to the ship's barbershop, patiently waited his turn for a trim...
...midnight drew near, crowds jammed the Senate galleries like spectators at a dance marathon. The House had finished its work with a comfortable margin; its members were lustily singing barbershop chords and happily contemplating a five-month vacation...
...went to work in a barbershop when he was twelve, as a wobbler's boy (in charge of lathering the customers). Then he became a grocer's helper; all evening he would fill his little wooden wagon with goods, and at midnight he started his laborious deliveries to the scattered cottages on the mountainside; at the edge of town a small, bespectacled man would meet him and help him pull the heavy load. It was his father, who always tried to make things easier...