Word: shops
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Hancock this time who was left, but myself. I was not running for President, though, but only for one of those giddy girls again. It was in a stationer's shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop...
PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday, at 2. "The charming Lotta" is back again, appearing here, for the first time, as Little Nell, and as the Marchioness, in "The Old Curiosity Shop." It must be confessed that, notwithstanding her brightness and vivacity, she is less at home in these parts than as Musette, which is promised for Monday...
...shop stands, with rolls and twists...
...surprised, O friend of my bosom, to learn that here neither the men nor the women attach any importance to their hair. None of the graces of a closely cropped crown or a long plait adorn American heads. The men cut off their hair in places called barber's shops, where three times a week they have their faces painted white with a mixture of froth and fire-water. I was curious to visit such a barber's shop, and what did I see? Three men were stretched out full-length and wrapped up in towels, with shut eyes, lying...