Word: haire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ducks & Beeps. At length when 43-year-old Johnny Dio took the stand, he was a vision from an old George Raft movie-plaid summer suit, white shirt, dark, grey-flecked hair. He gave himself a final reassuring pat of his breast handkerchief when one woman cooed, "He's beautiful." Predictably, Dio had nothing to say in reply to 140 questions from the committee-except 140 Fifth Amendment refusals, read in a low voice from a typed statement...
...first International Congress on the Biology of the Hair Follicle and the Growth of Hair, 270 physicians and other scientists from three continents gathered in London last week, debated highly technical questions of how and why hair grows -and, in the aging male, so often falls out. None of the experts could suggest any preventive or cure for baldness, but by the end of the conference they had practically convinced themselves that there is really no problem. Summed up the University of Chicago's Dr. Stephen Rothman: "I do not know of a single instance where...
...Attractive: buck teeth or teeth missing, ratty hair and a figure like 50 pounds of potatoes, badly sacked...
Dressed in black with shinily greased black hair and slinking step, Richard Waring does a superbly hammy job of the treacherous Don John. When he enters with an about-to-foreclose-the-mortgage leer at the outset and proclaims, "I am a plain-dealing villain," obviously subtlety is wholly out of place. As soon as Beatrice gives him a rose and departs, he makes a big thing of dropping it on the ground and kicking it into a hole...
Chips off the Block. Later the soldiers sold the King's blood to those who wished to dip their handkerchiefs in it, sold bits of his hair and chips of the block. The embalmer, sewing the King's head to his body, remarked: "I have sewn on the head of a goose." Charles had died trying to forgive his enemies, and almost surely even these last indignities, could he have foreseen them, would not have led him to approve the revenge taken by followers of Charles II years later. The body of Lord Protector Cromwell...