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Taking their cue from the farm bloc, a number of the Harvard Square barbers have also decided to do their wartime clientele for all it's worth. With the plea that raised costs on labor, soap, towels, and tonic force them to raise prices, the barbers have chosen to jump the cost of a haircut from fifty to sixty or sixty-five cents. Actually it appears that only those who have long gone unwashed would require soap, towels, or tonic for a simple haircut. And, as for labor, the average barber is now receiving sixty-five cents on the cutting...
Whether the eruptive scenes he had painted were the proper stuff to soothe Chilean children at their library tables; whether Chile's Government, in an anti-Marxist mood, might some day take a cue from Mexico's, and board them up, remained for the future to decide. One of Siqueiros' most famous murals, The Burial of a Worker, in Mexico City's National Preparatory School, has been hidden behind a board fence ever since...
...Barrymore went on the air, majestically insulting himself on the Rudy Vallee hour. Shattered in health, he often could not go on, lived in & out of hospitals. Fortnight ago he turned up, staggering with pain, for a rehearsal, finally said: "I guess this is one time I miss my cue...
...Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward over the table, her veil slightly askew, while with her cue tucked under her arm she aimed swift and true for the corner pocket...
Just as dreams are the psychologist's cue to the structure of an individual personality, so rumor is a cue to the underlying morale of a nation. It reveals the conflicts, latent hostilities, wishes and fears of the people...