Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stressed the desperate necessity for calm, dispassionate, concerted action in considering the Cartel finance bill (TIME, Feb. 8), which was before the house. The bill was presented in 101 articles with over 250 amendments already attached.* After an entire week of furious debate, often degenerating into fist fights and hair pulling, a part of one article had been passed amended out of all semblance to its original state, thrown back into the chamber again as utterly impracticable and passed again in a still further amended form, which admittedly bordered on legislative lunacy...
...after the state primary had given Johnson a plurality, McCamant read a sheaf of letters and several affidavits to show that he had opposed Johnson openly before his own choice as a delegate. The small, thin Judge, with dark hair and snapping blue eyes, appeared to be rather keyed up for the occasion. He read from one letter, written in 1920, saying that Senator Johnson was not a good American...
...portals flashed open before him, he tossed his battered felt hat to a flunkey and bellowed questions and commands in a rich throaty voice. Almost before the Foreign Office secretaries could answer or obey, he had seized his hat again, jammed it down over his thick mane of hair and rushed back to le Chambre. The individual who thus hectically disported himself throughout the week, was, of course, M. Aristide Briand. As Premier he was forced to keep an eye on a most uproarious and disheartening wrangle in the Chamber. As Foreign Minister he was obliged to give some thought...
...received it in 1894, during Wilde's most voluptuous period. Long known for a wit and esthete, he was by then known as a full-blown decadent, approaching notoriety. The symbols of his cult were familiar to London's streets and salons?peacock feathers, sunflowers, dados, blue china, long hair, velveteen breeches. He was suffused with and satisfied only by the cloyingly sensuous in image, thought and deed. He told Mrs. Toon in his note that he was "bathing his brow in the perfume of waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license...
...original author had an idea of confounding the next nineteen or twenty by placing his heroine on the point of a matrimonial bob. Miss Prevost is to signify her choice of husband by either cutting her hair or leaving it long. Author number twenty-one finally staggered through with the brilliant solution of giving her a semi-bob. And that's the whole story, or as much of it as we shall put down here...