Word: curl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hampshire early this morning and whistled through the windows of his private suite in Memorial Hall. After a night spent at a genuine Intercollegiate Ball the zestful zephyrs did the trick for the old reprobate and he awoke at dawn with roses in his cheeks and a curl in his blond hair. Ah, yes. Youth has come to town. Youth, strong and vigorous, is the style today. And best of all, the Vagabond is young again. And chipper, too, my lads...
...Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the best interests of mirth to revive George S. Kaufman's skit in which two blase hotel guests discover that the house is on fire. Instead of leaving, they stay to entertain the firemen. As the flames curl outside the windows, one of the firemen telephones the office for the key to the next room. The other tunes a violin, giving the excuse: "Not enough time to practice at home." Libby Holman, that singing girl who improves so tremendously on Helen Morgan, has a full-throated Harlem sonata...
Poodles fresh from curl-papers, flat-faced Pekingese, great phlegmatic Danes, almost-forgotten pugs, dappled Dalmatians with no coaches to run under-2,142 dogs, of 78 varieties, competed in Madison Square Garden last week in the Westminster Kennel Club's 53rd annual dog show...
...looked like the gray crinkled hide of an elephant. At night it was an arabesque pattern of vermilion, magenta, citron. Then the top of the wall would curl like a malevolent phosphorus wave. With a crash as of metallic surf it would topple, advance, cool, form another wall. For some reason the lava moved more swiftly at night. Even from Messina, at the northern tip of Sicily, it could be seen slipping down Etna, like a tiny blazing snake...
...ground under the front portion of the Library. All work must be done with the aid of artificial light and the enormous foundation pillars make the available space very limited. The binding is greatly retarded during, the summer months due to the excessive humidity causing book covers to curl almost immediately upon being bound...