Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Wakatsuki and his secretary swam. They swam down to the two policemen, swam up dragging them by the hair, kept swimming until another sampan rescued...
...night in the sedan. She was always bound and gagged. Her captors burned her fingers with cigars to make her help them get the ransom. If she did not . . . Steve and his fellow rogue murmured apart, spoke of selling her to a man named Felipe. They cut off her hair, threatened to cut off a scarred finger and send it to her mother. "I prayed constantly and talked to them of God. I'll bet they were tired of hearing my preaching. . . ." Then the cabin, somewhere beyond Mexicali, where they left her alone for an unguarded hour; she sawed...
...Hair Split. The military committee of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission (TIME, May 30 et seq.) decided by a majority vote that "theoretical limitation of armaments" may properly be discussed with reference to: 1) Land, sea; and air effectives. 2) Appropriations for armaments. 3) Legislation affecting the length of voluntary or compulsory military service...
...Their Britannic Majesties were prepared to receive in splendor last week a state visit from President Doumergue and Premier Briand of France. M. Doumergue's valet pondered again the advisability of a corset. Bachelor Briand submitted to a deft clipping of his (as usual) too exuberant mop of hair. All was in readiness...
Charles Dickens tells how the ladies of his time put in their albums the nail parings of royalty. Flaxen hair, if long and on the skull, brought ten shillings an ounce in England in 1662. Last week in California a moving-picture star was offered $5,000 for the trimmings of his next haircut. The buyer stated that he sold the stellar tufts, together with reproductions of photographs, for $10 and up per package...