midshave

Rumors abound of a ghost who haunts the third dining room, which purportedly was once a barber shop where a local mobster was cut down midshave.

1998, Rebecca Poole Forée, Northern California Best Places: Restaurants, Lodgings, and Touring, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 109

“What did he say? The barber.” / “Not a word. He stopped midshave, straight-blade razor in his hand, and he went to his cabinet and got them for me.[…]”

2004, Peter Robinson, “Going Back”, in The Price of Love and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, published 2010, →ISBN, page 44

There was just one slight wrinkle: The best-known justice of the peace was also the town barber. That meant that barbershop customers were often pressed into service as witnesses to a short-notice marriage ceremony, sometimes standing up for a couple midshave.

2004, Harriet Baskas, Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 205

“Okay,” I say, “I guess we can put it on the credit card, but I can’t take it in tomorrow morning because I have a banana job.” / This stops him midshave.

2008, Beth Lisick, Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 24

I needed to quickly establish what kind of character the gunman was. To do so, I came up with a scene in a barbershop, where an enemy attacks the main character midshave.

2017, Hirohiko Araki [pseudonym; Toshiyuki Araki], translated by Nathan A. Collins, Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga, San Francisco, Calif.: Viz Media, →ISBN, page 32

You roll out of bed, ready for a fresh, new day. But it’s the same miserable day it was yesterday. Your electric razor dies in midshave because of a power failure.

1969 November 1, Business Week, pages 63–64; republished in “The War That Business Must Win”, in Patrick E. Connor, compiler, Dimensions in Modern Management, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974, →ISBN, page 72

In Amarillo, Texas, he was hustled from his compartment in midshave, his face still decorated with puffs of lather, and found himself face to face with the entire town, which had gathered to watch him eat a sandwich and drink a Coca-Cola with the mayor.

1996, Joyce Milton, Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 100

“What’s your problem, Neill?” Will asked, stopping in midshave. “You’ve never seen a guy with facial hair before?”

1998, Kieran Scott, Kiss and Tell, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 112

The barber scraped off another stripe of soap and whiskers. “Take her to Jamison,” the colonel said. / “No,” I said. / The barber froze in midshave, and the colonel opened his eyes.

2008, Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 137

Dressed in his shorts and in midshave, he opened the door and admitted Henry Topel and Bert Carvel, who had already rebuffed the efforts of Biden and the other young Democrats to get him to run against Boggs.

2010, Jules Witcover, Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 66