Word: cowlicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the U.S. it was Nov. 19, a crisp autumn Sunday. For a home in Cheyenne, Wyo. and a pale, three-year-old boy with a freshly barbered cowlick, it was Christmas. Ten doctors had agreed last month that young Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, 22 Ibs., bedridden for more than six weeks with incurable sarcoma of the bladder, would probably not live until...
...Howard, Newspaper Napoleon. Logan sent it to Scripps-Howard's Howard for checking, got it back with marginal notes that disagreed with Stowe on several points. One Howard comment: "Napoleon, huh? Nap was a little runt and I'm nearly 5 feet 7 inches! He had a cowlick and I still have a pompadour...
...tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish hands and a silhouette which, while not paunchy, "had a curve to it." Middle-Aged Quivers. One day Lily B. met an old schoolmate and he asked her and Oleander to be the hostesses on a stag party to the Kentucky Derby...
Magic Name. Though he is the spittin' image of his father, down to the unruly cowlick and the twangy voice, Will Jr. has not inherited his dad's gift for the newsy quip, the folksy gag. He has gone in for sterner stuff. Naturally hesitant to live in his father's shadow, for years he called himself Bill. He is not unmindful of the political value of his name and appearance. (For the campaign Bill has become Will Jr.) But as the earnest publisher of the Beverly Hills Citizen, Will Jr. has made a quiet name...
Forrest C. (for nothing) Donnell, a slender, blond, sobersided citizen with a dignified cowlick, and Lawrence McDaniel, a short, huge, chuckle-jowled citizen with a merry eye, have known each other for nearly 40 years. Both were born in Missouri's northwest corner, the rolling prairies of the Platte River country. They met as legal eaglets at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Both, on graduation, went to St. Louis to practice. Both became members of the same Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in a "nice" residential district; both joined the same Scottish Rite Masonic lodge; both became trustees...