Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Senators tip the barbershop staff generously (standard: 25? for a shine, $1 for a haircut). But some, who remained nameless throughout the incident, got to thinking that free should mean free. So Forest A. Harness, the new Republican sergeant at arms, told a sad barbershop crew: no more tips. When South Carolina's freshly clipped Democratic Senator Burnet Maybank reached out with a dollar and was told the barber couldn't accept it, he roared: "I won't break the rules but that rule has got to be changed. I been paying a dollar every haircut...
...cough drop into her palm, makes a moue at the control room and opens her mouth. If the tune has a bounce, her slim Irish face lights up and her trim, spring-legged figure jigs happily; her smile can be heard as well as seen. If the words are sad, her face takes on a little-girl-lost look. The moment her stint at the mike is through, she pops her candy back in her mouth, swigs at a bottle of Coke...
...very sad," I said, "but he was no Peerless Leader...
...Ruby, that is a very sad commentary, a very sad commentary indeed...
...made the most of their theme, Bette Davis makes the most of her role. Her performance as an ex-first lady of the screen is first-rate. She is, by turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store. It is a marathon one-woman show and, all in all, proof that Bette Davis -with her strident voice, nervous stride, mobile hands and popping eyes...