Word: barbershops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon in June 1939, slim young Julia Esther Briones walked into a swank Guayaquil barbershop, pumped five bullets into her rich, reclining, about-to-be-shaved lover, Ramón Hidalgo R. To jail went Julia with a nine-year sentence. In November 1940, Army Captain Félix Guerrero Zarate blasted three bullets into the beautiful young body of his just-divorced wife, María Magdalena Mejía. To jail went Félix with an eight-year sentence...
Though not yet complete, modernization has upped business in bakery, bar and barbershop concessions...
...Bern Bernard & Lionel Stander). The Brooklyn "businessmen" who operated as Murder Inc. here return unsoftened and undisguised. No hopped-up killer-diller, Brooklyn, U.S.A. is as tough, cold-blooded and obscene as the rats who are its characters. A fast two-man job with an ice pick in a barbershop creates more horror, carries more conviction than Hollywood's slickest thrill-mongering. But once the D.A. gets the mobsters on the run, the play loses its fascinating documentary flavor, becomes just another melodrama...
...July of this year I was in Bowling Green, Mo., the home of Bennett Champ Clark. I did not attempt to make a poll of the town. I only made inquiry in a casual way. . . . The first time I asked the question was to a farmer in a barbershop. The reply was, "I can tell you what we think of him here, his picture in the court house has its face turned to the wall...
...fellow who thought up the idea of using a bunch of old tunes played in modern arrangements as a way of livening up a movie ought to be Hollywood's Number One Hero by this time. From the barbershop quartet favorites of the nineties to the ballads that Grandmother used to waltz to--all these have been worked to the hilt; and they've met with consistent success. It was inevitable that somebody should get the notion of using some of the top-notch blues songs of the past as the thread on which to hang another movie. And that...