Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tears were the order of the day on her first appearance as a witness. On her second appearance she was composed, but inclined to burst into giggles. "Daugherty's giggling nemesis," one newspaper called her. Tall, handsome, 30-odd, with her dark brown hair bunched over her ears, wearing a full-length black sealskin coat?so was she described...
...Story. America's "Awkward Age," depicted to perfection- 1840-1850, the days of hair-oil and Ascot ties-of paternal editorials in the Press and family albums in the Home-of P. T. Barnum and his "industrious fleas," his "Anatomical Venus," his "Magnificant Moving Diorama of the Funeral of Napoleon Bonaparte," his educated dogs, his Albinos, his questionable "Fejee Mermaid" (which turned out to be a gruesome object "made from parts of a monkey and a fish, and purchased from a Japanese sailor who must have had a great deal of time on his hands")-the days of elegant...
...evidence is their custom of celebrating St. Charles' Day by veneration of some hair alleged to have been part of the whiskers of the saint...
...glandular specialist and in 20% of his cases uses a serum from goats' glands. In the other 80%, however, the X-ray treatment is used. The majority of patients are school teachers and nurses who feel the need of renewed energy to carry on their work. In many cases hair which has turned gray is supplanted by hair of the original color...
...Vikings," he said, "and was brought by them to the shores of Canada. The Indian natives took up the sport and developed it to the highest glory it has ever attained. The Vikings had batted a wooden ball around with a small board. The Indians made their balls of hair and feathers, with a stone or wood knot to give weight, and the whole covered with a leather casing. They first padded the boards, and then substituted the net of leather thongs supported on a wooden frame, very similar to the present stick...