Word: haire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demure was London's Betty Compton. Her smile was mischievous but reliable. She lived 148 years ago, but she is still remembered. Reason: Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait. At the time she was 20. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Northampton. Her combined hair & wigs piled up enormously above her white brow, bright eyes, little pointed chin. She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
...statue of Old Bob, caught exactly the expression he wanted when Young Phil sat down in the Davidson studio in Paris last summer and gripped the arms of the chair with a single firm movement exactly as Old Bob would have done. It is even in the hair ? and the hair is important in a LaFollette. Old Bob had a grey, upstanding mane that shook and tossed and needed sweeping back between periods of an oration. Young Bob's mane is thick and gets swept back between periods. But it is soft and curly. Young Phil's mane...
Twentieth Century. She motors into town with her shopping list?sardines, bath salts, boots ? but hurries back to her country seat (same monastic manor) and sits on Queen Bess's chair, brushes her short hair with King James' silver brushes, bounces up and down on his sacrosanct...
...much "upstate," just south of Albany. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a fifth cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt and he married Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He is, conspicuously, the man that Theodore Roosevelt the younger never became. Tall, with a chiselled countenance, blue eyes, curling light hair, he has exercised a vigorous public spirit ever since, as editor of the Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing law for a while in Manhattan. President Wilson made him Assistant Secretary...