Word: haire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth Taylor is a great beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...
...being pretty. In reply to a woman reader who remarked that she had no time to think about her looks, the fashion editor wrote sternly: "In your opinion, Comrade, it is a waste of time if a woman desires to express by a spotlessly laundered blouse or neatly groomed hair that she lives and works in a healthy and free country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home in a clean hostess gown of multi-flower print, your cheeks and hands...
...wash your hair before you go to the hairdresser, because it is cheaper that...
Twenties for Toft. A plain, unexcitable, grey-eyed blonde, Bazy parts her bobbed hair in the middle, does not worry herself too much about what the well-dressed woman should wear, expresses her urge for personal ornamentation by wearing spangle-studded glasses and chunks of costume jewelry. She got her elementary lessons in journalism as an 18-year-old reporter on her mother's Rockford (Ill.) morning Star, covering everything from farm news to a "dance-athon," and writing two columns. In 1941, Bazy married Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., now 30, a socialite defense-plant worker, University of Chicago...
Some Britons once firmly believed that a man could cure a cough by pulling a hair from his head, putting it between two pieces of buttered bread, and feeding it to a dog with the words: "Good luck, you bound. May you be sick and I be sound." Expected result: the dog trotted off coughing, the man recovered...