Word: barbershops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Union will open its doors to the entire University next Monday morning. Last night the Living Room and Periodical rooms were opened to the Class of 1931, as they will be on Sunday evening also, but on Monday morning the restaurant will be ready to serve meals, the barbershop and newsstand will be open, and the same afternoon the Union Library may be used...
...situation spoke for itself, so we made camp together and had some fresh gazelle meat which one of the Lieutenant's men had shot that morning. After dinner a native drum was produced coffee was brewed and the Arabs organized a barbershop quartee and sang like forty eat fights. As for the Europeans, I broke out a bottle of Mr. Hennessey's famous product, of the third magnitude, and we proceeded to wax very friendly. Presently, the Lieutenant felt constrained to sing of the charms peculiar to a certain lady from Armentieres, wherenon I retaliated with a spirited...
...have never had my hands manicured, so I am unable to speak with authority on the damosels engaged in that profession; they touch nothing that they do not adorn; but . . . should a mediaeval warrior suddenly appear in a modern barbershop, and see a fat man reclining in a chair, with a barber scraping his face, a bootblack energetically rubbing his shoes, and a fair maid clipping his nails, he would doubtless believe that this was some new, elaborate, and efficient method of torture; perhaps he would be right...
Senator Willis (Republican): "With regard to Vice President Dawes' speech, I want to say that I am on my way to the barbershop for a haircut and a shave...
Twenty minutes from the St. Lazare Station is the Parisian suburb of Colombes. There, France has erected a stadium seating 30,000, and a vast playing field for the 1924 Olympics. Within the ground will be a bank, barbershop, postoffice, cafes, bars and many other trappings of civilization. It was semi-officially opened last week by a rugby match wherein Wales defeated France 10 to 6. Because it rained and because most of the French team were from southern France, the Frenchmen suffered a chill, so they said...