Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honesty and gratitude of the "friend" are to be commended, but the real pity is that he has robbed American history of a tradition: Paul Revere spurring his nag toward Concord, Daniel Webster with his hair tossed back and his throat well oiled. Abraham Lincoln and his cadaverous friendliness, Grant and his cigar; to this glorious galaxy of national heroes might have been added the epic story of Calvin and his dime, if this "friend" had not draped the pall of anonymity over the gusto of anecdote. Still, some patriotic Ananias should be able, from the postmark "Racine", to create...
...There is one feature of Zionism which is particularly interesting," went on Professor Munro, "There are a number of Russian Jews, who call themselves 'pioneers'. They emigrated to Palestine, and are farming the country with striking success. These young men and women, the latter of whom bob their hair, are between 20 and 30 years old, and dress and act very much like college men and girls in America. They are the most virile part of the movement, but they are not Jewish by religion. They are free thinkers...
...platform of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, stood a tall Russian. He had sparkling eyes, thin hands, greying hair, a tailor. He was Serge Koussevitzky, new conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, making his Manhattan debut. With uncommon dignity he turned his back on the notable company assembled in that hall, raised his arms. Rank on rank behind him stood, sat, lounged, the many who had come to see whether the Boston Symphony had any chance of regaining the haughty place it held before Dr. Karl Muck went to Fort Oglethorpe under the Espionage act in 1917, whether it were true that...
...mention of that composite, non-existent creature--the college man--one never thinks of furrowed brow or snow white locks. A dapper youth with ruddy face and varnished hair, in some non-chalant pose upon a Hart, Schaffner--& Marx background, is the popular conception of this mystical creature. The reading public will find its ideal rudely shattered by an article in December "Sribner's" called "A Freshman Again at Sixty...
...woman was about 40, with irongrey hair, extremely well-dressed, of medium height, and of very attractive appearance. Mr. Apted stated that he would like any student who knew of any such woman, answering the description, to communicate with him immediately. "She was extremely reduced and undoubtedly of good family," he said when interviewed last night, "and we are very anxious to return her to her home, as she is a very sick woman...