Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They soon found out. Onstage, in a brisk walk, came 52-year-old Baritone Eddy, his blond-tinted grey hair brushed to wavy perfection. When he began singing, the crowd knew for sure that he had not changed at all; his big voice had not lost a bit of its old boom, or, for that matter, its slight nasal tone. There was Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Rose Marie, I'll See You Again, At the Balalaika, Indian Love Call (with a pretty blonde, Gale Sherwood, dressed in an unlikely, scantie-type Indian costume). There...
...price increase ("A hike is a tramp and a tramp is a bum and bum is the word for hike"). They are also warned against words that may trip up printers, e.g., towhead. Thus, one story in the Times said: "To bright, two-headed youngsters . . ." Wrote Bernstein: "Use 'blond,' 'flaxen-haired'-anything...
...Abbey shadows, or under TV klieg lights-"a peach-tinted liquid foundation, a touch of red-blue powder rouge . . ." The coronation gown, bejeweled and embroidered white satin, swished softly. On top of it went the crimson parliamentary robe to be worn to the Abbey. The Duke of Edinburgh, blond and handsome in the uniform of an admiral of the fleet, joined her, and together they visited the nursery to say good morning to their excited children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Then it was time...
...spotlight his name is Mister Mistin, Jr., and he is a little boy of five-going-on-six. As the star of the circus he is the envy of all who ever gummed spun sugar. His blond hair is long and in curls, and his Lord Fauntleroy suit shows no wrinkles. But who would dare call the confidante of lion tamers a sissy...
...They gaped at the Japanese grade-scholars' craftsmanship, were surprised at how much the kids in the pictures looked like themselves. "Why, these don't seem foreign at all," said one nine-year-old. "They look like my friends." But they did wonder why there were no blond children in Japan, and wished they could read the Japanese writing in the pictures...