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Word: haire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phantasmagoria, from beneath this flood of (to most of the audience) incomprehensible Greck came a show, a swell show, a hit! There was none of the respectful boredom with which the audience greets far too many Classical Club productions. Instead the stiff-shirted, bespectacled audience let down their back hair and roared with laughter, applauded like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...recently stepped it up to 1,000,000 watts. (Since Cincinnati's station WLW lost its experimental license to use 500,000 watts, no U. S. station is permitted over 50,000.) Every night powerful XERA blares out boosts not only for Brinkley's treatments but for hair dye, life insurance, oranges, perfume and "doctor's book." The latter sells for $1, complete with pictures of Dr. Brinkley, his wife Minnie Telitha, their white-stucco home, six-story brick hospital and son "Johnnie Boy." Since XERA drowns out every station in the neighborhood, rates for XERA-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brinkley's Trial | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...silicosis. It was found: 1) that the clean shaven men suffered by far the most; 2) that men with strong mustaches fared much better; 3) that men with full bushy beards and mustaches were practically immune, the reason being obvious that the moisture of the breath, combined with the hair, formed a most efficient respirator [strainer] and one that the men could not take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dusty Whiskers | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Much Mustard. Within the next five years, the Castles became by far the most celebrated dancing personages of their era. They popularized the Maxixe, the One-Step, the Castle Walk. They opened a chain of four ballrooms and made about $15,000 a week. When Irene Castle bobbed her hair, a million other U. S. women aped her. Vernon Castle enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. When he was killed in a crash at Fort Worth, Tex., on Feb. 15, 1918, the Castles' career became a legend, commemorated by a dance craze that is not over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...more logical explanation of the market break was just coming over the ticker -the hasty, fear-begotten British and French military alliance with Poland. Next morning, however, newspapers gave the Angas rumor part credit for dropping prices to within a hair of the January lows. New York Attorney General Bennett subpoenaed Boom Angas for a hearing. The florid Major blandly denied having sent any general wires since March 25. He said he had only a "diminutive influence" on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: On the Spot | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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