Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only one member of this barbershop quartet around the Square was not fazed by the talk of increased prices for tonsorial care. In fact, he was quite pleased by it all. Larry Cirella, of the Hotel Commander Barber Shop, is not affected by any Barbers Association edict because he runs a one-man business. His price to students and professors will stay the same. "I'll probably profit from the increase," added Cirella. "I am for the boys. My shop is like a home to them...
...kidding whom? In your Jan. 26 Art section you quote a Detroit art dealer: ''The main bulk of buying is not Sheep Grazing in the Meadow any more, nor is the young woman of today buying art just to match the draperies." As a member of a cooperative formed by 75 local artists, I had a prospective "young woman" purchaser urge me to paint a picture that would complement the color of a lamp shade in her living room. She described the size it should be, showed me where it would hang, but was totally disinterested in subject...
...when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark: the "European" towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya a member of the Legislative Council may rise to speak, dressed in a skirt shaped after his Luo tribal costume of skins, but a flunky in knee britches and silver buckles carries a mace, as in the Mother of Parliaments...
...Every time me 'member Charlie Water come in my eye. When me 'member them moonshine nights, Water come in my eye. Now me pickney*come born so pretty, And no papa for see, Charlie sail to England and left me- Water come...
...convince Jamaica's good-time Charlies of the error of their ways and reduce the ranks of illegitimate "pickneys" is the major concern of an articulate, honey-skinned feminist named Beth Jacobs. Born 41 years ago, and one of six children, she is now a member of the island's Legislative Council, the wife of a doctor popular among the island's U.S. tourists, and the mother of two. Beth Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood...