Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfactory vice, if vice it may be called. True, certain feminine institutions of a conservative character still shudder in a manner somewhat artificial at the name of nicotine. The recent Radcliffe decision, for example, blew away any possible curl of smoke which might mingle with a collegiate curl of hair. All the democratic paraphernalia of committee and student votes were employed to extinguish some few pitiful cigarettes...
...Krim's defeat (see p. 12) as well as the Right's desire to save the franc aided Premier Briand in securing his vote of confidence 320 to 209. All fiscal debate was thereby postponed for another week and the Cabinet's overthrow again avoided by a hair...
...usually nauseous triangle dramas of uneven family life. Thanks to the performance of Miss Rich and the general intelligence of the story and direction, the picture may be endured, perhaps occasionally enjoyed. This wife wearied of her dentist husband and took up with a gentleman who let his hair grow long and played the violin. The couple are overtaken in Trieste and the wife concludes that her sane and comfortable spouse is, perhaps, better after...
...account for her. All that is known is that three weeks ago she entered a beach hotel and reappeared in a bathing suit variously described as dark green or dark blue. She was a well formed woman and attracted many an idle eye. High-piled, unshorn dark hair; full, wide lips a little irregular; unusually white teeth; a generous nose; eager, long-lashed eyes-her description has been so minutely detailed that it is certain she prepared to go in swimming. Her bathing suit had a white edging around the armholes. It was a one-piece suit with the pretense...
...strong little sons move freely about the town, one in particular, Walt, the second oldest, bringing home much news of teamsters and ferryboatmen, or?the gravity gone from his ruddy-brown face, his tar-black hair cocked with excitement?of how the Marquis de Lafayette picked him up and kissed...