Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being and his figure were quite human, a man of middle size with a stooping back and a long face, a prominent nose and with brows which grew together so that those who saw him would get frightened, with very little hair and having in the middle of his forehead a sign, according to the habit of the Nazarenes. His looks were quite simple, only his pose was more than human because he performed wonders through some invisible power...
...next-to-last of her baker's dozen of songs, Meller chose "Flor del Mal" (Flower of Sin). It tells, with the utter simplicity of all Meller's repertoire, the hopeless, disdainful story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
...days later police discovered and took into custody one William C. Mclntyre, 28, upon whose forehead yawned a gash. Mr. Mclntyre identified the ostrich-trampled overcoat as his, acknowledged that he had been drinking, dimly remembered having lately taken a beating from some one, was astonished, mortified...
...iron-grey hair was brushed straight up from his broad, handsome forehead, and his iron-grey beard came to a round point beneath a chin well formed and determined...
...middle-aged (48), very tall, indeed taller than his deceased father, William, his cousin, John Davison Jr. (four years younger), or his revered uncle, John D. Sr.** Spectators noted his heavily tanned and freckled complexion, his horn-rimmed spectacles in their gold frame, his slanting forehead, his meticulously parted hair. He answered questions for the most part readily, always frankly, in a mild, almost diffident voice. One trick of his amused the attendants. He pinches his lips between thumb and forefinger every time he must reflect for a phrase...