Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take no false vanity in the accident of her unblemished features, but besides preferring to the worldly...
...Liberty was introduced on the first official U.S. dollar. The model's name is forgotten, but her hair hung loose on her shoulders. In 1795 she was given a Phrygian cap. After 1804 it was coined no more...
Ushers with tall combs and white mantillas stole back up the aisles as the house lights faded out. The orchestra blared some opening bars, then hushed to a faintly drumming vamp. Into a pool of amber light on the empty stage, stepped a small woman with hair of jet, a stocky little figure in velvet flounces, with a broad, flat face of extraordinary mobility. Her black eyes grew slowly wider and deeper as a spattering storm of applause burst upon her, swelled and rumbled with calls of "Brava! Brava!" which took five minutes to blow over...
...something happened. For the next-to-last of her baker's dozen of songs, Meller chose "Flor del Mal" (Flower of Sin). It tells, with the utter simplicity of all Meller's repertoire, the hopeless, disdainful story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
...cartilage in her nose. Hair covered her body and grew monkey-wise (up instead of down) on her arms and legs...