Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Dark, slender Gita Cartaret of Atlantic City had "a sound endocrine constitution." She wore her hair not shingled but shorn, wore mannish clothes (from B. V. D.'s out) and repulsed all male attention with a temperamental corselet of ice triplex. The reason Gita abhorred men and wanted to be one, was merely psychological. Fast friends of her brutal, gambling father had attempted her when young. Also, her mother had had a grievous cohabitation...
...waters, one of the Navy Department's periodic shakeups, in which officers are alternated between fleet and shore service, will place the two former midshipmen in ranking command of the U. S. Naval forces afloat, Admiral Samuel S. Robison, sturdy, stocky determined, dark complex-loned with iron gray hair and a close cropped mustache, will become Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, succeeding Admiral Coontz. And Admiral Charles F. Hughes, "huge friendly and dynamic," ruddy-complexioned and bushily mustached, will assume the second ranking command-that of the Battle Fleet...
...sergeant Frederick George Lee of the Middlesex Hospital, London, is not what you would call a sensitive man. Kind and sympathetic, yes; but army life and hanging around a hospital are scarcely calculated to give one a hair-trigger psyche. And yet, Frederick George Lee has doctors puzzled. They admitted it last week...
Edwin Franko Goldman is a Jew writer, with musicianly grey hair, an ascetic face, and strong leathery lips of the professional wind-instrument-player...
With Tabs on his ears and soot in his hair...