Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They're talking through their hats when they think of charging two dollars," J. Allen Moloney, owner of the University Barber Shop, said yesterday. "But there's been plenty of agitation to raise the price around here. I think we may raise...
...F.F.A. when he entered high school in Gainesboro. Under his vocational agriculture teacher, Robert ("Woofie") Fox, Joe began studying the schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper than bearings...
...comedienne, she has the air of a born lady and pretty much of the orbit. Her material is well-bred nonsense and lightly barbed social satire. Her manner is the scrupulously deadpan, just touched with the cockeyed. With impeccable timing and delivery, she impersonates an arch, gushing antique-shop owner, a cheery but firm nursery-school teacher, a rich, cult-crazed American lady...
Henebry borrowed money and sold stock to raise $750,000, got a 20-year lease on 2½ acres around his old repair shop, set to work on the Skymotive Terminal. It includes a 400-ft.-long hangar (space rental and normal services: $575 a month for a DC-3, $55 for a Beechcraft Bonanza), a modern two-story terminal building with lounge, office space ($28.50 to $80 a month), conference room, flight-planning room, kitchen and bath facilities...
Among the other originals: Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Madame Delphine Delamare, the faithless young wife of a middle-aged doctor who had studied medicine under Flaubert's father); Edgar Allan Foe's Marie Roget (Mary Cecilia Rogers, a beautiful clerk in a tobacconist's shop Poe patronized); Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Deacon William Brodie, by day a respectable Edinburgh town councilman who at night led a notorious gang of thieves and kept two mistresses). Most of them were interesting people; some were fascinating. But they all have one thing...