Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, when Zaza and Dufresne meet later in her dressing-room she can give way to her artistic temperament. She strokes the hero's tousled hair before she tries to scratch his eyes out. It is quite likely that Miss Farrar looked disheveled when she retired from the stage of the Atlanta theatre on the night she scandalized the Georgia minister above-named...
...ancient civilizations have been found. The lecture was illustrated by three reels of moving pictures, showing the ruins of the Maya cities of Chichen-itza, Uxmal, and Palenque. As an introduction Mr. Blom described the ancient inhabitants of these cities. The men painted their bodies and festooned their hair...
Those who see "Cosi Sia" will behold a woman aged in years, a woman who, in spite of her sixty six years scorns even the slightest bit of modern stage make up. Her hair is now quite gray, and age shows upon her face, but in her thoughts and her actions she is as young and beautiful as the girl of fifteen who won the love of Italy when she first stopped on the stage as Juliet...
Books, we are credibly informed, have souls. So, in all probability, have houses, towns, vegetables, hair nets, tin cans. In the case of books, however, the situation becomes more acute. The soul of a book tends rather to force itself upon the reader. One is led to wonder what other qualities noble or ignoble the unassuming volumes on our shelves share with the existing lords of creation. Have books feelings, sensibilities, all those little emotional refinements which make of life so deli cate an adventure? No one wants to hurt a book's feelings. Are they sensitive? Have they their...
...Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, The Century, etc., etc. The latest collection of them was made this Autumn under the title Cross-Sections, Julian Street was born in Chicago, but he is thoroughly metropolitan in manner and instinct. He is quiet, slow moving, tall, with dark, graying hair and a slow, almost drawling voice. His master is obviously Booth Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same -both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised at some...