Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country. He toured, offering $1,000 to any man who could last four rounds with him. He thumped Charlie Mitchell, "The Bombastic Sprinter." He broke half the ribs of Jake Kilrain in a fight at Richburg, Miss.-75 rounds and the temperature 120°. When he had his hair cut, girls gathered up the coarse, black strands, treasured them in lockets...
...Museum contains such interesting relics as Napoleon's* riding whip, a lock of his hair, the red ribbon of the Order worn by him the day of the Battle of Waterloo; the oriflammed mantle of the Ordre de Saint Esprit (Order of the Holy Ghost) worn by the Kings of France; the chain of the same Order worn by Louis...
Ringmasters in long red coats and stovepipe hats; white stallions more graceful than swans; blear-eyed elephants performing feats of incredible sagacity; chariot racers, trapeze artists, ladies in spangles who wear jeopardy like a flower in their hair, sword- swallowers, snake-charmers, clowns in shreds and patches, fat women, thin men?these blithe barbarians nightly astound sober Manhattan. But the circus this year is different?for one supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth...
Smouldering Fires. Emotional acting is not regarded with the same reverence as it used to be. The beaten breast, the torn hair, the dripping tear are too often signs of antiquity. Pauline Frederick is one of its chief disciples now remaining and it must be said that she does much for its survival. In the present outburst, she is a business woman, no longer young, who marries a young man in her employ. The youth, it evolves, is really in love with her young sister. The opportunity for a grand renunciation scene is not overlooked. An excellent, if slightly oldfashioned...
George B. Siddall, toastmaster, welcomed the four, read telegrams, handed them in sheaves around the table. His hair was white as the table napery, but these gentlemen ? Messrs. Burton, Goulder, Smith, Hadden?were among the older men at the Cleveland Bar when he came there in 1893, he said. He called upon them each in turn and they rose to reply. The well-fed lawyers of Cleveland, fathers of the law, bent forward, giving ear to the forefathers of their association...