Word: haircuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, The Best of the Best is a rich hoard of U.S. writing. Perhaps the one great story is Ring Lardner's Haircut, a caustic glimpse of small-town brutality; it gets better with each rereading. Close runners-up are Ernest Hemingway's My Old Man, a poignant report of a boy's affection for his father, a crooked jockey, and Wilbur Daniel Steele's How Beautiful with Shoes, an eerie description of a meeting between an imaginative lunatic and an inarticulate farm girl. Most notable contribution from the younger generation is Prince of Darkness...
...Congressman King, sensations before his committee were breaking so fast that he had not had a chance to get a haircut for a month...
...restless. As Novelist John Marquand puts it in Melville Goodwin, USA: "He was one of those Samsons ready and waiting for some Delilah to give him a haircut, and Dottie Peale was just the one to do it. Melville A. Goodwin was going to get his hair cut, and medals and stars and clusters would not help...
This spring week in Johannesburg the flowering plums were massed with pink after a hard winter. But I found that in South Africa's Golden City you can't have even a haircut without bumping into crime...
Henry Clay & Mrs. Morris. There were still other sides to Johnson. He subscribed to newspapers and magazines (including the New York Mirror), learned to play the guitar and followed local and national politics. At 12½? a shave, 25? a haircut, his shop-for white men only-sometimes took in $30 a day, and he lived accordingly. In his house were piano, guitar, flute and violins. He left a library of several hundred volumes, including French and Spanish grammars and Shakespeare. But for William Johnson, free man of color who hired white help on his farm and had many white...