Word: haire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these "Limericks," Patchen writes of little men with wooden hair, playful street-cars, forgetful commuters, and a man two inches shorter than himself--all of them good, very good...
...gentleman to the left with a diminishing thatch of hair and Victorian high collar is Josiah Quincy, another Harvard President resurrected for a House name...
...been touched up with snow to slow the sleds down to almost sane speeds. But World Champion Bobsledder Eugenio Monti, 30, was in no mood for safety. Only the fact that he had drawn a late starting number for the two-man trials helped him hold on to his hair-trigger temper. Earlier sleds swept the run clean, and Eugenio and his brakeman Renzo Alvera slicked down the one-mile groove in the record-breaking time...
...onetime La Scala Basso Antonio Meloni, who rooms across the street from the bar, has played pinochle there nearly every day since it opened in 1939. Basso Meloni, 81. arrives each morning at 10, stays all day, takes a short nap after dinner, brushes his shoulder-length white hair and returns for the evening. He sings at the drop of a bocce ball, joins Peironi's troupe at least once a night...
...Henry Winthrop. Henry is a bad hat who gives her a bad time, and her lot is further aggravated by the fact that her wicked uncle, Governor John Winthrop, seems determined to run the Massachusetts Bay colony without her advice. Of course, "a provoking lass she was, [with her] hair black as a wicked Spaniard's. There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly...