Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice Brandeis: "They [the union members] were innocent alike of trespass and of breach of contract. They refrained from violence, intimidation, fraud and threats." Old but Able. Before the Supreme Court last week, a stocky 93-year-old gentleman with neatly trimmed snow-white beard and abundant snow-white hair, looking a bit like the late Viscount Bryce, pounded a desk and argued a water power case with vigorous conviction. He was Moses Hooper-for 70 years an able lawyer of Oshkosh, Wis. He had ridden in his automobile to Washington and intends to ride back to Oshkosh soon. Beech...
...nine years this sturdy, thick-set man with greying hair, who plays golf and tennis as zestfully as he works at physics, delved into the mysteries of atoms, ions, electrons. Often he strode into his laboratory at midnight after dinner or the theatre. For hours, in impeccable evening dress, he tried to measure infinitesimal electrons on oil droplets less than one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, checked his results many a time. At last he isolated the ion, studied its ways and habits. For this he received the Nobel Prize (TIME...
...tramp to come along and whack the dirt out of the carpets. If no bummer appeared, she knew that she would be obliged to quarrel with her husband that evening before he would do the "dirty work." Therefore, she often beat the carpets herself and got her long hair, her eyes and her lungs filled with street filth tracked into her best parlor. Carpet beaters and carpet sweepers are still used where buggies exist...
Born. To Editor John Chipman Farrar of the Bookman (see p. 23) and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, co-author of the crossword puzzle, a son, John Chipman Jr., "8 Ibs., red hair, light complected...
...other end cannot see you. Half the time, much to the disgust of your family, you go to the telephone in kimono and cold cream. Disillusion would certainly be the fate of the ONE at the other end if he could see his darling with shining face, her hair done up in inartistic Western Electrics...