Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None so humble and strict in her pieties as hollow-breasted Leah, penitent Jewess. The wicked willows saw her live black hair hacked off. Come Yom Kippur, she fainted with fasting. After a year, pale, pious Eli from the yeshiveh (seminary) brought her to peace...
...Author. In famed Manchester ("Doomington") Grammar School, Louis Golding was precocious among prodigies. At Queen's College, Oxford, he was an ostentatious aesthete, a mincing pedestrian with yellow hair all abroad and much thin-piping, decadent erudition. His poems and essays of the period (1919-22) run salt and shallow. Then he settled in the Tyrol, wandering north into Germany, south to Capri and Sicily. Seacoast of Bohemia (1924) gave evidence of a poseur shedding his false skins. Now, at 29, he seems to have written out of his bones...
...mincing pedestrian with yellow hair all abroad...
Enemies to the country-"they do not even know when the time has arrived for a hair...
This cluttered journal proceeds with all the ingenious disorder of its subject's existence. Had he been a woman, the title could have read: "Anatole France with her hair down"- bodily hair, mental and spiritual. He asks the secretary, in a study crammed with sacred art-works and in the tone one uses to inquire after another's liver: "Have you been liberated from religious beliefs ?" There are appalling dinner conversations, loquacious walks about Paris, disconnected imperies, prodigious exclamations on a thousand passing matters-the necessity for affection, archaeological finds, the shrewd drinking of Rabelais, the greatness...