Word: haid
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...book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time for the Harvardman. Since both the Cambridge citizenry and the 'Cliffe administration frown on Bermuda shorts in class, girls achieve the same effect by neglecting to comb their haid or to put on lipstick. Actually this attitude has its benefits. A Harvard junior reported how shocked he was at first to have girls in his classes. Having graduated from Exeter, he used to rush to his Humanities 2 lectures in Sanders Theater for box seat, so that he could...
...cornetists (Tommy Ladnier, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Buddy Petit, Punch Miller) who learned from Bunk. And Bunk, who could play any tune in any key without stopping to think ("sharps and flats they never bothered me"), was the greatest of them all. Bunk, they said, "had more in his haid." He had played ever since his mother had bought her kid a battered cornet. "She told me," he said later, "if I learn to play real good, she get me another, and I did learn to play real good...
...started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around his haid and shouted, 'Lord a' mercy, don't shoot him again, he's dead...
...Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) broadcast an extracurricular skit. Amos: "De emblem o' de fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley." (As Andy) "I thought dat was a pretty good...
...topic as a cat and restricted in locale to the sun-deck of a yacht, the play nevertheless spreads out over a wide range of situations. One indication of this is the names of the songs. They're all rather good, but slightly outstanding is "Totched in the Haid and Smitten in the Heart", and really superior is "Ten O'Clock Town", for which the boat momentarily becomes a little Victorian village, with lights blinked out two hours before midnight...