Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been rising to new prominence. Who, what it is-trade mark, symbol, place-many people can only guess. But in the New York Senate they know what lies behind the name: it is a man. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, short, sparse, with drooped moustache and thin white hair, sponsored the Baumes laws, sputtered and spumed "mawkish sentiment" at critics who called them cruel, lived to see his name rise to a disembodied symbol of "punishment to fit the crime...
Girls of Emory University at Atlanta, Ga., cringed. "... Simple hell cats with muddy minds." The Methodist revivalist was roaring at them. Outside it was full spring. Gay flowers beckoned to be plucked for coat lapels; breezes would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety. But the girls, and boys, of Emory, sat awed as Dr. Clovis Chapel of Memphis continued to castigate: "The average girl of 17 would not greatly object to appearing nude if she had any excuse to do so. ... Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around...
...Hair tonics...
...distinguished looking gentlemen with white hair and ruddy complexions, both successful in their chosen careers, shook hands, said they were sorry. Samuel Insull, who supplies many an Illinoisan with gas, electricity, grand opera and a U. S. Senator-elect, was sorry that he could not answer all questions. Senator Reed of Missouri, the asker of the questions, was sorry that he would have to cite Mr. Insull before the Senate for contempt. They had fenced with questions and answers in Chicago last summer (TIME, Aug. 9) and in Washington last week, had learned much about each other. Mr. Insull summed...
Scattered Nicaraguans of no identifiable faction became so incensed that they fired in the general direction of a trainload of U. S. marines moving from Chinandega to Leon. No hair of a U. S. head was injured but U. S. news organs favorable to the Coolidge-Kellogg policy began to whoop up war: "American marines run the gauntlet of a leaden hail. . . . Bullets plowed through the wooden coaches of the train. . . . The marines' commander organized a punitive expedition and instructed his men to chase, shoot or capture the attackers...