Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt meant nothing to which exception could be taken-he is always a good casuist in defending himself. His latest caricature may cause an explosion or two, but statesmen's hair will hardly turn prematurely grey over night, nor will an epidemic of Anglophobia convulse the U. S. More chuckles than anything can be expected to ruffle the Atlantic. Nonetheless, the danger is latent. Anglo-American friendship rests on the good feelings of each people and that disposition is not shown by the diplomats but by the artists and authors...
...with him through a certain scene in Richmond, later-a great mob of sweating, smoking, spitting men; a jury of eminent Virginians; untidy, courageous John Marshall in the Chair; and Burr, the little Colonel-powdered hair, black coat, pallid visage-on trial for his life. Soon after the trial, she took ship for the North with her trunks, her maid, her little black dog. She was never heard of again, though smugglers still tell a story of how a plundered privateer was found, shivering in the huddle cf the seas, with nothing alive on board except a little black...
...great as that of an artist who would never achieve anything. This fact was pungently observed by a woman who came upon Sargent doing a watercolor by a Hampshire wayside, stood, for several minutes, watching him. "Why do people imagine they can paint? There's a man whose hair is turning gray...
...from the incrustations and brought them back to their original metallic condition. An ugly gray-green cup of Egyptian bronze rust returned to its shape of a bronze cat and kitten. Old coins revealed names and dates. A statue of Isis shed the rust of 30 centuries from necklace, hair, headdress, garments, finger-and toenails. ? Dr. Colin G. Fink, Columbia University...
...necklace, hair, headdress, garments, finger-and toenails of Isis...