Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Magruder: "My mother was a Kildare; my father was a Magruder; and my hair is red. I'll be heard if I have to take it to the President himself...
...Robert Bridges, shocked of hair, bestubbled of beard, was appointed Poet Laureate† by King George in 1913, thereby disappointing, if not enraging, a vast horde of Kiplingites throughout the Commonwealth; for Dr. Bridges, despite his four university degrees, was unknown, except to a small but influential circle of admirers...
Describing Rasputin, Prince Yussupov says: "He was of medium height, thickset, yet rather thin, with long arms. His big head was covered with an untidy tangle of hair. Above his forehead there was a bald patch which, as I subsequently learned, came from a blow administered to him for horse stealing. He seemed to be about 40 years old. He was wearing a long coat, wide trousers and long boots. . . . His whole bearing attracted attention; he appeared unconstrained in his movements, and yet there seemed to be something dissembled about him-something suspicious, cowardly and searching...
...startling figure-bulky, halt, not a hair to disturb the glassy smoothness of his pate, and a bush for a beard...
...Brancusi is a galoot; he saves tickets to take him nowhere; a galoot with his baggage ready and no time table; ah yes, Brancusi is a galoot; he understands birds and skulls so well, he knows the hang of the hair of the coils and plaits on a woman's head, he knows them so far back he knows where they came from and where they are going; he is fathoming down for the secrets of the first and the oldest makers of shapes...