Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collecting tickets, lugging scenery about and memorizing one-line roles. Twenty-five new theaters and some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors, are out to make it. To draw the crowds, most theater managers are trying to buy big Broadway and Hollywood names for their barbershop-window posters. Most sought-after star: Tallulah Bankhead. Most popular plays: Dream Girl and Joan of Lorraine...
Lectures by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, and Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor of Economics, on "Diverse Shapes of Men" and "Economic Perspective" are added attractions, while G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will judge a barbershop quartet contest on the second...
President Green had put off a heavy black winter suit to emerge in black-&-white checks. John Lewis had arrived by limousine, demanding to know whether the hotel barbershop was Unionized. Told that it was, he had the works-shave, haircut, shampoo, massage and manicure. The 15 men met on the Alcazar's top floor last week, their thoughts on Washington, where Republican Congressmen were grinding out labor legislation...
When John L Lewis entered a barbershop and settled himself in Sidney C. Martin's chair, Martin concentrated on getting a grip on himself. "A shave and a facial massage," said Lewis. Barber Martin, who liked to tell people during the coal strike that if he ever got hold of Lewis he would take the famed eyebrows right off, got out his razor. Then a photographer entered, set off a flashbulb. Lewis bounded out of the chair with a growl, grabbed the photographer's film-holder, smashed it, drove him away, sat down again. Barber Martin gave...
...Ever since Christmas they had been snowbound. Twelve-foot drifts blocked their roads to the outer world. Once a week a train (one coach plus cattle cars and boxcars) chuffed in & out, and then silence lay upon the grain elevators along the C.P.R. tracks, the general store, blacksmith shop, barbershop and garage...