Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When nearing her hacienda in Puebla, a group of armed men appeared suddenly, opened fire on the buggy. Five bullets entered the left side of Mrs. Evans; she was instantly killed. As her body fell out of the buggy, her hair caught in the wheels, the frightened horse tore off at breakneck speed, dragging the body with it, causing terrible mutilations to the face. Strauss was removed to a hospital, seriously wounded...
EXPRESSING WILLIE?Showing just how tired a business man can get of long hair and operatic temperament...
...long been known that the growth of hair, plumage, etc., is largely a secondary sex characteristic?i.e., that it is a sort of by-product of the activity of the sex glands. But Dr. Voronoff's claims?if, indeed, he has made them?go a great deal further than this simple scientific knowledge suggests. At the present stage of matters, these claims are a press report? no more; and it is well to keep in mind that the press's reports on scientific matters are generally about as reliable and discriminating as a plumber's reports on pharmacy...
...complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair in two long braids. The horse is a 'grand creature'; so is Glava, and her nurse talks in an Irish dialect." It sounds a thoroughly bad book, yet she counsels people to read...
SWEENEY TODD?A mid-19th Century barber makes meat-pies of his enemies, thus moving us to mirth where he was wont to curl the hair of our grandfathers...