Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, spread through the land. James Clement Dunn, high school graduate, lawyer, Manhattan architect and U. S. Navy lieutenant, entered the State Department after the War. He received assignments to Madrid, Port au Prince, Brussels. Then he went to Washington and it was discovered that he, smooth of hair, chiseled of chin, impeccably attired, was expert at mapping out White House ceremonials. It was he, for example, who lately and finally ranked "the ladies of the land," as follows: Mrs. President, Mrs. Vice President, Mrs. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mrs. Speaker of the House, Mrs. Secretary of State...
...purely Congressional parties, the above ranking does not hold good. Not even James Clement Dunn ever split the hair of precedence between Mrs. President of the Senate (who is also Mrs. Vice President of the U. S.) and Mrs. Speaker of the House, who remain equally august in their husbands' bicameral spheres. Perhaps this hair will never be split, for, last week, James Clement Dunn's efficiency at policing drawing rooms was recognized by his promotion to the head of a newly created "Division of Protocols" in the State Department. His newly added duties will be to arrange...
...Babe Ruth of Spain arrived last week in London. Glossy hair curled close to his head; grace governed his slightest motion. To grace and slightest motions he owes his life a thousand times. He was Antonio Marquez, famed matador...
...Manhattan, for the first time in memory, it braved a formal recital. There was nothing extraordinary about the recital guitar. It had just six strings. Andres Segovia, the Spaniard who brought it to the U. S., had just the allotted ten fingers but he made big music. Long black hair, a sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great black arm and began to play. Then did the skeptics in the audience forget altogether the guitar of the barbershop ballads...
...pursuit of him are two none too desirable females. One is French, correct, cold, a poor mixer. The other has red hair and a reputation tinged to match. She saves her hero's life in time to get the curtain down on an inordinately leaden evening...