Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawns giving vent to small cries. The stags at the party chased them from time to time: there was a regrettable fracas when one of the latter, finding himself next a small female with a loud voice, attempted to stuff his handkerchief down her throat and cut off her hair, perhaps her head, with his pocket knife. An alderman took action and the party progressed without further untoward incident until the time came for eating...
...Polled 3 to 1 in favor of unbobbed hair for women in a straw vote decorously conducted by the Conservative Evening Standard. In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled...
...Long hair no, bobbed no go, Eton crop yah hoo, severe shingle righto...
...Straw voted against bobbed hair 232 to 217, thus confirming the judgment of the Lords (see above...
Philosophized the Lt. Col. Reginald V. K. Applin: "A woman loses her dignity when she parts with her hair. The beautiful story of Lady Godiva becomes coarse and unthinkable if we try to imagine her as riding without her long golden locks...