Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month I celebrate, at my estate in the department of Eure, my 74th birthday. Paris papers told how, at 12, I was a stonemason, how I learned" the barber trade because chiseling tired me, how I shaved for two francs and curled for three until one day, in my shop in a slum, a demirep said to me: 'Make my hair curl like the locks extraordinary of your mother.' I was at that time supporting my good maman; her hair was famous in the neighborhood, beautiful auburn hair that nature had twined round her head in a manner...
...University doubles tournament draw will be posted at Harry Cowles' Tennis and Squash Shop this morning, and the first round must be played off by tonight...
Entry books will be posted in the Union, Leavitt and Peirce's, and Harry Cowles' shop on Monday. These books will be taken down at 5 o'clock the following Saturday afternoon. Harry Cowles, University squash and tennis coach, will select 16 players from the entry list to compete in the Class A singles...
Bernardone, the father, permitted himself only once to display the irritation which his son's behavior had so often occasioned. As a rule he accepted Jack's madcapery with an indulgent "Tschik"; with the Signora he often delayed in his shop discussing how Jack wasted his days lounging and singing beside fountains, how he rebounded from one girl to another, above all how he spent money- wasting it, throwing it away in pursefuls. "More like some prince than our son," said the mother in despair; but the father had not even objected when Jack rode...
...door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...