Word: flaxen
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...story goes back to a Los Angeles schoolroom where a flaxen haired little girl sat at her desk, busily writing and cheerfully ignoring the fact that she was supposed to be doing lessons. She was making a list of names, writing them down to see how they looked, whispering them softly to see how they sounded, trying to select a new name for herself...
...young man, with a bowler hat, cane, flaxen moustache, and blue suit was looking at a gorilla in a zoo. . . . Perceiving that they were alone, the gorilla addressed the young man as follows: "You look very good-natured. Get me a suit like yours, only larger, a bowler hat, and a cane. We will dispense with the moustache. I want to get out of here. I got ambitions...
...broken hammer. In the bathtub lay the body of Deborah Ann, 7; in the kitchen were the bodies of Daphne and Marquis. In the oven were two burned pieces of toast. Only survivor of whatever had happened was Chloe, who, neat in a clean dress, her flaxen hair in pigtails, gazed at him with appraising eyes as he stumbled out of the house...
...Hungarian peasant, beauteous, fun-loving, slenderized Ilona Massey is unspoiled, despite pounds of jewelry and dozens of furs lavished on her by ardent admirers. She likes to wear them to Hollywood hot spots, but she also scrubs her own garage floor on all fours. Blue-eyed and flaxen-haired, she tempers Madeleine Carroll's cool gorgeousness with some of Mary Martin's warmth and a richer voice. The talent scout who uncovered her in Vienna wired: "This is the kind of dame who would look naked wearing a fur coat...
...card at a charity fête in Teddington, outside London, one day last week was a well-publicized ride by a well-clothed modern Lady Godiva. Hundreds of amused spectators lined the sidewalks as 13-year-old Mirabelle Muller, in flesh-colored trunks, brassière and long flaxen wig, mounted an old grey mare and ambled through the streets. No Peeping Tom peeked but a Prissy Peter caused lady and mare trouble...