Word: flaxen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepare for a career in the German foreign service. The Hitler regime changed her plans. Her mother is Aryan, her father was a Jewish physician. Helene Mayer has been expelled from the Offenbach Fencing Club. She hopes nonetheless to fence for the 1936 German Olympic team. Slim, tall, flaxen-haired with charming manners and a smile as bright and sudden as her foil, she speaks English with no accent, an occasional ja. Last week she reproached photographers who asked her to pose in bright sunlight: "The last pictures in California were in the sun. They made my nose too long...
...Boston's South Station, flaxen-haired Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall boarded a Pullman for Washington, gave the conductor a lower-berth ticket. Said he: "The President's daughter can't ride in an ordinary lower berth. We have engaged the drawing room for you." Said she: 'I've $4.53 here in my purse and that's all. If you want to give me a drawing room for that I'm perfectly satisfied." She slept in the lower berth...
...finally nailing the sandwich to the roof. An escalator then lowers Mr. Cook to the stage where he relates at length the trip he has just made from Cripple Creek, Colo.-"a good night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty in her voice, has stowed away in the cab. For her benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your Horses...
...grandfather on a big white yacht easing out into the Hudson River. At the Nourmahal's rail stood "pop," otherwise the President of the. U. S., waving back to his six-year-old granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall. Also on the wharf were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before, had kissed her President-son goodby. ''Sistie's" grandmother, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, was at that moment motoring toward Newport with Col. Louis McHenry Howe...
Goldie Gets Along (RKO-Radio) tells the familiar tale of the girl who tries to get to Hollywood by means of a beauty contest. In this case the girl is flaxen-haired Lili Damita and she enters more than one beauty contest. She enters a series of them promoted by one Muldoon (Sam Hardy) in various cities, always under a different name and always subsequent to having won over the local judges by her undeniable charm. It is then unscrupulous Muldoon's cue to offer her as the prize $1,000 or a non-existent ticket to Hollywood. Until...