Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate floor Mr. Reed is an impressive figure-steel-grey eyes, well-barbered white hair, one of the few Senators who has reached 65 without being either fat or lean, a voice that can ripple gently or ring magnificently or snarl menacingly. Herewith, one excerpt from Mr. Reed's prose and one from his oratory...
...Prof. C.P. Welmer, instructor in pharmacy at Columbia University, said that in this country in the last year more than 4,000,000 persons had their hair died. He denied that the use of cosmetics was vanity, and said that such use contributed to the highest civilization. He said Rome was at the height of her civilization when she used cosmetics more than we do today, and that in the dark ages cosmetics were little used." --Boston Herald...
...worked up a frenzy telling about her love-conversion by Robert Semple: "He had curly brown hair and a beautiful face and he upset me." She wrote to him. He came back, married her and they preached their way to China, where he died...
...came Dr. Fosdick's turn to speak. In his study he had labored over his topic, watched by the eight-inch crucifix, gilded, that he had mucked out of War debris. Now he rose, hair kinky, face pouched; said: "If Jesus Christ came back to earth He would work through the individual. We modern Protestants fail in some things. Our Roman Catholic brethren in keeping the confessional have pretty nearly wiped us off the stage in one feature of human service. Through the confessional they have built up an amazing service for the treatment of sick souls. A good...
...Martin Brown to the Great White Way (others current: The Love Thief [nee Praying Curve], The Dark). Herein an epidemic of red-headed babies visits Astoria, Long Island, and where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...