Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether-Austria, Styria, and Lombardy, together with heraldic lions and an eagle, the latter holding in his beak a ribbon with the letters A. E. I. O. U. (Austria Erit in Orbe Ultima)--the Emperor's favorite motto. His long flowing hair and delicate, refined lines of his aristocratic face heighten the ornate, romantic aspect of the whole composition. When we remember that it was during the weak reign of Frederick III that the decay of the medaeval imperial power approached its climax, the tragic element in all this phantastic splendor becomes apparent...
...strictly private corporation, but indicates its true status by printing daily as its device the Papal mitre and crossed keys. He maintains absolute the decorum of L'Osservatore's news and editorial columns, but does not scorn to accept advertisements of fountain pens, filing cabinets, asperin, hair tonics, and that esteemed internal remedy Le Pillole Pink...
Count Dalla Torre is massive, stocky, weighs perhaps 200 Ibs. and stands half a head taller than most Italians. His complexion is very fair and his hair almost blond. Withal he is of noble and ancient Venetian lineage, though he was born a Paduan. Even enemies find him affable, but few except his friends realize his extraordinary and sensitive keenness of mind...
...Hair. Raging cutely, Clara Bow, famed exponent of "It," pulled off gold-dug clothes, jumped into a lily pond, and rose to the surface with only a lily in her red hair. She was an amorous manicurist, clipping three elderly clients for clothes until she met the nephew of one, whereupon in a burst of reform and shame she took the climactic pond plunge. Elinor Glyn devised the diverting asininity...
...greater right to be called preeminent at least in this department than Mark Twain. From the time he was first able to read, the Vagabond has chuckled, laughed and even been most undignifiedly convulsed by the inimitable stories and essays of this little man with the bushy white hair and fierce moustaches...