Word: haire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onto his train at El Reno, immaculate in blue and with bristly hair well brushed, climbed Oklahoma's gaunt, rustic William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who had promised to introduce him at Oklahoma City. Arrived at their destination, the onetime Democratic Governor and the Republican Nominee stepped off the train arm in arm. Alf Landon's throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through...
Last May at the National Convention of the Prohibition Party at Niagara Falls, Keynoter David Leigh Colvin declared: "Formerly it was the wandering boy who made the mother's hair grow grey. Now it is the drinking daughter also." Within 48 hours Dr. Colvin had been named his Party's choice for the White House. Then with a whoop the Drys nominated as his running mate Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee. When that A. E. F. hero, who had not been consulted, promptly declined, the Prohibitionists picked a Los Angeles lawyer named Claude A. Watson...
...Smith & Sons. Apt was a Chicago Tribune front page cartoon by John Tinney McCutcheon showing Edward VIII as Prince Charming kneeling to Mrs. Simpson as Cinderella and finding that her foot fits his jeweled slipper. In the background John Bull shushes a man representing British Journalism who tears his hair and cries: "Ye gods! The biggest news story in the world...
...Brush your teeth, comb your hair, hurry to bed, say your prayer, and before you know it I will be there. This year "Tourate" telegrams have been introduced, which grant a low wordage charge on messages containing strictly travel information. Postal Telegraph in most cases has duplicated Western Union's special message arrangements, but last week had no intention of trying to match Western Union's football service. Parents, friends and rooters may have delivered to any locker room in the country any of the following inspiring sentiments...
...cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about the tall, strapping Dinkas, who are great fishermen, great dancers and whose custom it is to straighten their hair with cows' urine and paint their faces white...