Word: hair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME [April 10], I noted that somebody from Omaha writes about the "whiskerino" event they are having there for the opening of the film Union Pacific, and the writer's anxiety for barbers and companies manufacturing shaving and hair-cutting accessories...
...because we in San Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...
...race is a group of people who, for the most part, resemble one another in such things as hair, eye and skin color; stature; facial form; size and shape of head. A national population may be a confusing potpourri of many races and racial blends, and the most typical representatives of one race may be scattered among many nations. A specialist in racial anthropology must track down the basic racial features and distinguish them in their jumbled context...
...Coon points out that in judging racial differences, laymen are likely to be unduly influenced by styles in clothing, hair and beards. He prints a picture of Neanderthal Man as he might look with a haircut, clean shave and modern clothes (see cut, p. 51), showing that he might get by today on the tough side of town without attracting attention as an oddity...
...year-old Thomas Mesbitt McCarter, resigned to merge the State's helter-skelter trolley and transmission lines into one concern. Today his Public Service Corp. of New Jersey is the biggest company operating entirely in the State (total assets: $686,000,000). Founder McCarter's shock of hair has turned from red to white, but his bulky, florid personality is still as dominant as ever...