Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the middle, chanting full-throatedly: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" Vexed at this insult to the national currency?this tactless hint that it was worthless?angry Venetians closed in upon the sailor, pummeled him, tweaked his broad nose, sought vainly to tug at his woolly hair...
Desert Gold. Zane Grey has contributed another hair-raiser, in which a sand storm is a vast feature. It deals with the dangers surrounding a girl who lived on the edge of a Western desert, and how a brave lieutenant of cavalry (Neil Hamilton) preserved her from them. Western pictures, like Western sandwiches,- are much the same everywhere and good if you like them...
...sounds dubious; but it was not so long ago that people's hair stood on end at the thought of going "a mile a minute." The latest speed record (Lieutenant A. J. William, U. S. Navy, in a Curtiss hydroplane last fall) is 266 m. p. h., or over "four miles a minute." This speed would not have to be quite doubled to permit an 18-hour circummundane flight on the 60th parallel, which is only 8,312 miles around...
...Building in St. Paul,**** one may go up a narrow hall and into a bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare neck...
...Geneva had fallen through, M. Briand could only express the hope that postponement would resolve that difficulty. Since the new Cabinet is merely the last Cabinet revamped, there was little else to say. With this tedious interlude over, the Deputies began again literally to tear one another's hair and rend one another's garments over a "manufactured" issue which they seemed to welcome...