Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father was an unsuccessful grocer. This business he had acquired by the misadventure of matrimonial union with Annie Sowers, whose hair was red, even as had been his mother's. Their faith in each other suffered early dissolution due to an ill-considered assertion on his part to the effect that hot bricks do not burn bedclothes. Resultant smoldering sheets and mattress consumed with them the Cane's insecure romance...
Princeton rightly ranks as a favorite over Yale this afternoon, but to this observer, who has, incidentally, been thrown for a loss by Old Man Dope many times this fall, it seems likely that, Yale may come through and win by a hair's breadth, or even less...
...Corot. The pictures were put on view; prizes were awarded. To Eugene F. Savage of Manhattan went the Frank G. Logan medal, carrying with it $1,500, for his painting Recessional, which showed (lifesize) the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, fire in their nostrils, clouds in their hair, racing and racing down the midway of eternity. Malcolm Parcell, also of Manhattan, took the Logan $1,000 prize and the Wait Harris $300 award for his two portraits, Jim McKee and My Mother, the latter of which was acclaimed as one of the most exquisite productions ever hung...
...rubber sheet, 1; scissors, 7; dress goods, 2 pieces; Artlex collars, 11; fur neck pieces, 2; ear syringe, 1; fur gloves, 10 pairs; muffler, 1; victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies' shoes, 1 pair; dress suit, 1; tuxedo coat, 1; pajamas, 1; Corona typewriter, 1; electric hair cutter, 1; men's arctics, 1 pair; laced rubber boots, 1 pair; men's shoes, 2 pairs; ties, 1; opera glasses, 1; scarf, 1; wool jacket, 1; kodak film packs, 2; pocket knife, 1; pearl pin, 1; pipes, 2; leather bags, 2 (one with letter "M" and one from...
...surprised, therefore, to hear that King George of the Glucksburg dynasty is being widely fonted during these weeks preceding the Greek elections. His poor guesswork in siding again the Allies in the war, together with the loss of his early romantic character, typified by the shedding of his hair, lost for him the fickle favor of his people. And the accession of financial, and, therefore, of political strength, through the marriage of his daughter to the American millionaire Leeds, has been counterbalanced by the generous openhandedness of American Greeks, who look back to Attic aridity, through a veil of hazy...