Word: haire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking bombing pictures on view last week were less gory than the Shanghai bombing pictures (TIME, Sept. 13), but were in some respects superior to them in their hair-raising immediacy. The Movietone, Universal and Paramount photographers who made them arrived at Nanking day before the promised raid, decided to stop at the Yangtze Hotel outside, the city wall because its roof commanded a good view of the railroad station, which they expected to be the prime object of the attack. Imagine their discomfiture next day when the Japanese planes droned out of the sky and headed...
...this is the daughter. So then I know what Charley means, and I get careful. She has on one of those long pink dresses with icing and forgetmenots around the neck, and she's got a green orchid strapped around her middle. She's got big feet and her hair starts from her head and goes out like the Japanese rising sun. The same color, too. I don't do anything, I just stand there and look. If she'd had on glasses I'd have hollered. And then I slunk out quiet-like...
...Fathead's roommate is a Prince Charming. He has the loveliest blue eyes and curliest brown hair I ever did see; he reminds me more of my poor William, as he was when he was, every time I go into the room. And he sleeps just like William did, on his right side with his mouth open. I know, because one Sunday I walked into his bedroom thinking he was up and gone...
...iron-grey hair flying, his firm jaws clenched, Conductor Artur Rodzinski mounted a podium in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center one day last week, and with a brisk downbeat of his baton started a new orchestra through its paces. He soon exclaimed: "Marvelous! The strings are fantastically fine. ... I doubt if there has ever been assembled anywhere, at any time, a new orchestra that promises so much for the future...
...wide currency. *Croaked the N. Y. Herald Tribune's Isabel Paterson: ''There is no loftiness of spirit in his books, and a book must have a soul to be great." Max Eastman accused Hemingway of having "... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome. It is time some friend spoke sharply to Mr. Hemingway." The N. Y. Times's John Chamberlain asked: "Can it be that Hemingway has been...