Word: haire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last, however, the shark was caught, but as it was being hauled in, the fishermen were shocked speechless with surprise -for at the end of the hook was not a shark, but a Lagosian woman whose long, wet hair was matted about her face. She was a fish hooks seller in the village . . . and part of her body was sharklike, the other part human...
...were still in place along the paths, but earth smells arose from the drying ground, excited birds skittered in the shrubbery, squirrels chattered in the trees. Students went to classes without neckties, and in the afternoons an elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt close to Nature-ever since his unhappy childhood in Munich, his happy youth in Italy, his placid days in Switzerland when he worked for the Berne patent office and pondered the structure...
...September, merchandisers spoke of his "business daring." No other important Parisian had ever dared sell retail in Manhattan in competition with stores like Saks-Fifth Avenue which bought from him wholesale in Paris. The sort of ladies who made up M. Rochas' customers babbled incoherently of his sleek hair and out-of-door complexion. Last week the ladies were back buying at Saks-Fifth Avenue and talking of somebody else's outdoor complexion, and again there was no branch of an important Paris dressmaker in Manhattan...
With their attention distracted by Author de Montherlant's byplay, readers may not notice how shrewdly his characters are drawn. A libertine, indulgent, temperamental, Costals undertakes the amorous education of Solange with a patience that astonishes even himself. He raves about her legs, her eyes, her hair, her ears, her wrist watch, her vaccination marks, her manners and the fact that she does not read his novels, "When she blows her little nose," he exclaims, "it's always behind a newspaper (moderate in its views) so that I shan't see her do anything...
...strength of her performance in The Man Who Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME...