Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April number of Hygeia (medical magazine written for laymen), one Herman Goodman made the following points relative to hair...
...takes a hair about six weeks to grow one inch. On the crown and back of the head the hair can grow 40 to 50 inches and be not unusual...
...latest of these nervous persons who view with alarm is Vice President Frederick L. Hoffman of the Babson Institute, who should know better. Speaking in Ford Hall Sunday evening Mr. Hoffman made the hair rise on the heads of his listeners by informing them that whereas the murder rate had formerly been only seventy-two out of every million, it was now nearly eighty. The number of corpses, he darkly insinuated would, if place end to end, extend for nearly twenty miles; and in ten years, if business is good, the line would stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...
...performance. Bodanzky, conducting, was at his best, drawing out the full possibilities of the noble horn quartet in the overture and the brisk hunting choruses. Elizabeth Rethberg as Agatha swooned deliciously in her famous Prayer, and the incantations were made trebly hair-haising by being set amidst Josef Urban's haunting stage-sets. An added item was the immortal Invitation to the Walts, interpreted by the nimble-toed Rosina Galli...
...mother, Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Included are many new letters of Thackeray, some of the most amusing ones written during his lecture tour in America. Among the pages one comes upon Ibsen, Keats, the Brownings, "dear old Mr. Carlyle,," Darwin, Ruskin, Stevenson, "lunching with us at Paris, tossing back his hair...