Word: haire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior member of the Court...
...Booth Tarkington, wife of the novelist, was hospitalized last week in Indianapolis. Cause: celluloid combs in her hair had caught fire...
...Washington, a Mrs. Mates posed last week for press photographers with her son, Henry Mates. He. aged five, was bald as an egg. She said that a fox-terrier puppy had jumped at him, scared him. Within six hours all his hair dropped...
There are four tableaux. On one side of the stage a bride is being prepared for her wedding night, her long hair is being combed. On the other one sees the anointing of the groom. Then comes the blessing and departure of the bride, to the lamenting of her parents. Finally the nuptial celebration, described this way by Conductor Stokowski for the League of Composers' program note...
Forty-seven years ago in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, little Igor Stravinsky was born, son of an opera singer. He was a child of terrifying musical precocity and an early tendency towards hair-splitting conversation. The law first attracted him and he attended the University. Then, aged 20. he met a wise old man, Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the great five who had founded the Russian National School of Music. Rimsky, steeped in the folklore of his country, taught the youth to put his ear to the ground, to listen to the earth sounds of Muscovy...