Word: haire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles newshawks, but they were never fortunate enough to attend, as Queen Helen always shunned publicity. Once they were able to report second-hand accounts of an elaborate bridge party she gave for a large group of ladies. The guests appeared wearing gaudy pajamas and blonde wigs if their hair had not been bleached as had their hostess's. Queen Helen outdid all of them by wearing black lace pajamas over white tights. On another occasion she courted future votes by inviting members of a victorious University of Southern California football team to Magnolia Farm and treating them...
...allergy to some substance caused the sneezing, Washington doctors scratched her skin some 80 times, rubbed into the scratches hay pollen, flower pollen, pulverized cat fur, dog hair, house dust, food extracts, dozens of substances...
...painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab and a huge board to which were tacked a mousetrap, a pair of baby shoes, a rubber sponge, clothespins, a stiff collar, pearl necklace, a child's umbrella, a braid of auburn hair and a number of hairpins twisted to form a human face. There were in addition, books, prints and paintings ranging from the 18th to the 20th Century, from Pieter Bruegel to contemporary Peter Blume. Having done its best to explain abstract art to the U. S. public last spring (TIME...
...same year Paris dadaists gave a "Festival" in the respectable Salle Gaveau Concert Hall. The program bore the announcement: "Personal Appearance of Charlie Chaplin. The dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building...
...ticker services that their telephone operators could only answer : "Hold on a minute, please." Radio stations had to postpone quotation broadcasts. From coast to coast evening papers, whose Wall Street editions must wait for closing prices and bid & ask quotations, were held up while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused to admit photographers to snap Al Smith on the rostrum...