Word: haire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diversion Fred Snite has adjustable mirrors rigged over his upturned face. These enable him to read, play games and to see his meals when they are placed on a table immediately back of his head. When a page of print is laid with its top at his hair, two mirrors enable him to read precisely as though the type were directly before his eyes. A single mirror turns the type upside down for him, but like a printer he can read it that way, too, with great facility. Another new accomplishment: he speaks Chinese...
...social season, one of the great events of the year. But not in Coronation Year. The 169th Royal Academy exhibition has been officially open for a month, yet not until last week did attendance figures begin to approach normal. Having shaken the Coronation confetti out of their hair, the public trooped in to see what, after sitting for .weeks in solemn judgment, the Academy's hanging committee had chosen...
...publication. Advertisements are often of the sort not acceptable to the lay press. Manhattan's Catholic News, which bears the recommendation of Cardinal Hayes as "a friendly, newsy paper," carries the advertising of foot masseurs, $2 doctors, "a Gonzaga University Priest Chemist's" preparation for the hair. Our Sunday Visitor of Huntington. Ind., which is running a big religious picture contest similar to Old Gold's for a $2,000 grand prize, advertises such products as Mercolized Wax which "Brings Out Your Hidden Beauty...
Emilie and Marie each have 17 teeth, the others 16. They can now brush their own teeth, comb their own hair, dress themselves completely (except for shoe-tying), go to the toilet alone. They feed themselves and for the past month have been carrying their empty dishes from the table to the pantry...
...Pacific? Few men have done such a thing, and fewer have lived to tell the tale, but many must have imagined themselves in such a terrifying predicament. With as much calm authority as though he had fallen overboard himself, Herbert Clyde Lewis tells just what it feels like. His hair-raising little tour de force is the more effective for being so quietly, matter-of-factly written...