Word: blonde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addressed them in terms that involved the names of prominent Biblical characters. The spectators pitied Champion Tilden's trouble with the spots, which assuredly gave an abominable twist to many of the balls he tried vainly to return; they marveled, at the same time, at the assurance of blond, pouting Vincent Richards, who paid no attention to the spots but drove, lobbed, half-volleyed as if every ball rose to his racket from the immaculate baize of a billiard-table. Without glaring, without sacerdotal muttering, he defeated Champion Tilden...
Hero Eaton. "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute," shouted the U. S. envoy in Paris; meanwhile, the U. S. made large yearly "presents" to a bedizened rapscallion with a glittering eye, that Admiral of the Barbary Corsairs, the Bey of Tunis. To Tunis went William Eaton, blond Midshipman from Connecticut. Said he to the Bey's brother: "I will put you on the throne." The U. S. Navy Department connived. Eaton mustered an army of sheiks and camels, began a staggering crusade along the coast to Derne. He ran out of provisions, plodded on. His army deserted...
...well known. They slapped each other on the back, and Arlen laughed and said: "Only you and T know just how bad a writer I am!" He is much pleased with the cast of his play, finds Miss Cornell a beautiful and real Iris and Miss Ann Harding's blond beauty eminently suited to Venice...
...giggled. They would bow their heads together over a newspaper, whisper for a moment, then fling themselves back, shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth. A man seated opposite eyed this performance. His face was at once sharp and bland; he had a wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache. Perhaps he knew that the girls were becoming hysterical because they had discovered in him a resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other sheets, thus: GIFFORD, 40, HEADS BIGGEST UTILITY COMPANY (New York Times...
...wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache...