Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months since a shy, blond young schoolman, of moderate intelligence and average personality, achieved international fame by getting himself convicted by the righteous state of Tennessee of having "taught evolution" out of school books approved by that state's educational authorities. It is six months since lavender-gallused Clarence Darrow hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and tortured the late William Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months...
...Tokyo, or Cape Town, he would not have known that Stanford had not beaten California for 20 years, but if he had awakened in Stanford Stadium he would have known it. There were 75,000 people there to convince him, half of them quite crazy with delight. Captain Nevers, "blond behemoth" of the Stanford team, showed quite conclusively that Stanford could beat the California team-beat it 26 to 14-to the tune of incredulity and frenzy...
Despairing of making good in the city the hero entrains for a small town with the avowed intention of winning the richest maiden in the village with his city manners. Unfortunately he finds her sharp and unattractive. The blond hair and blue eyes of his choice are possessed by the daughter of the poor country druggist. Therefore he enters the drug shop, and makes it pay vast dividends by the introduction of a jazz tearoom. The low comedian marries the heiress, and everybody heads for the happy ever afterward...
That is one of the chief charges. Dan Moody, a young fellow of only 32 (tall, blond, good-natured), was elected Attorney General of Texas at the same time that Mrs. Ferguson was elected Governess. He had a majority of 400,000 (whereas Mrs. Ferguson's majority was only 90,000). He has attacked the record of the Highway Commission, claiming that it has spent 20 millions in a few months, and that it let contracts to high-bidders instead of low-bidders. He demanded that the Commission cancel 36 contracts it had made. The Commission declined. The husband...
...blond man of average height, with a mustache in the Kaiser Wilhelm manner, an inadequate nose, and a body that astonishingly, at the slightest excuse, erected mountain-ranges, mounds and melons of muscles-Eugene Sandow, like Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the outstanding idols of a period that worshiped modesty in all forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when...