Word: black-haired
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...black women, hair has classification power (witness the connection Don Imus made between hair and sexual promiscuity when he referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos"). Just as blond has implicit associations with sex appeal and smarts (or lack thereof), black-hair descriptors convey thick layers of meaning but are even more loaded. From long and straight to short and kinky - and, of course, good and bad - these terms become shorthand for desirability, worthiness and even worldview. (See pictures of Michelle Obama's fashion diplomacy...
...Fourth being Cal-birthday), before they went up to Plymouth. Mrs. Coolidge then wore the pretty crocheted white lace (note: Mrs. Stearns wasn't positive about the fabric-thought it might be silk or silk-and-wool) beret, with a small feather or some other ornamental touch. Her black-hair was tightly folded up under the cap. The resultant smooth hairline at the neck probably gave careless observers the bob idea...
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