Word: haire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiscal 1958 budget to Congress last January, Dwight Eisenhower soon made it clear that his Administration was still trying to find ways to shave the record-breaking $71.8 billion. Later, after Treasury Secretary George Humphrey set off a clamorous flap by predicting that big budgets would lead to a hair-curling depression, President Eisenhower passed the hot budget potato to Congress, saying that it was the "duty" of Congressmen to cut spending-if they possibly could. The House of Representatives tossed the potato right back with a resolution asking the President to point out budget economies. Last week President Eisenhower...
...auditoriums and churches across the U.S. More solitary listeners pull shades, take the phone off the hook and even lock their doors. Wrote one fan, too old to attend the Met any more: "On Saturdays, I get my black velvet dress out of its box. And I dress my hair and put a fresh flower in a vase beside me. After all, I am to spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses." In the '305, when the Met was being refurbished, a Texan had one of the plush seats sent to him so that he could "listen in style...
...gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...
Darkest After Dawn. In Leeds, England, Mrs. Harry Tillotson got a divorce after testifying that her husband had once rubbed margarine in her hair, hurled a fried egg at her, generally made breakfast time unbearable by slamming doors, banging pots and pans, playing the radio at top volume, whistling through his teeth...
...this reason we shouldn't take the devotees of Continentalism too seriously. The Continentalism movement is as harmless as its members are ineffectual. In another few years they will probably have terminated their college fling, got a hair cut and a family, and will have swapped their Creeping Continentalism for a Galloping Professionalism, or at the least a Beaming Suburbanism...