Word: coiffeurs
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...pleasure of Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet, one Jonah Uden, a marine aboard the Battle cruiser H. M. S. Renown, was ordered recently to London and there instructed in the art of female hairdressing by a Court coiffeur. Last week Jonah Uden was pronounced capable of waving, marcelling, bobbing, shingling and shampooing. Proficient, he was ordered back to the Renown, where no woman...
...Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...budget. What can she do? Possibly nine-tenths of the population of the world are millionaires in German eyes. Then they must be taxed. This cannot be done, but a brilliant Hun thought put a wonderful scheme of taxing foreign words. Thus if anybody prefers "hotel" for " gasthof," "coiffeur" for " haarkünstler," " restaurant " for " wirtschaft," he must pay for offending the populace with these horrid, florid words...