Search Details

Word: coiffeurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Naval Coiffeur | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Naval Coiffeur | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foreign Words Taboo | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |