Word: haired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home from vacation (in Scandinavia) by cutter to St. John's, Newfoundland, from there to Washington by plane, dashed to his office at 4 a.m. Within 48 hours he had called up a corps notable for a preponderance of 1) competent, stable businessmen, 2) economists who comb their hair...
...speakers were using a unified language, it was so technical that newshawks tore their hair trying to get plain-talk stories out of the meeting. One reporter sourly observed that the only semblance of unity he saw was a gathering of the delegates around a radio to hear war bulletins...
...Hair-raisers among Dr. Rauschning's revelations: 1) Nazi theories are so much window-dressing for befuddling the masses: 2) Germany's real rulers, a small Nazi inner circle or "elite," have one program-power, one plan-plunder, one tactic-terror; 3) this inner plunderbund secretly laughs at Nazi claptrap about race, blood, soil, considers Mein Kampf oldfashioned; 4) they plan to make Germany a base from which to conquer the world; 5) they expect a socialist "second revolution" which will destroy the last remnants of Christianity, individual freedom, reduce the German people to collective serfdom...
Rimbaud shocked Verlaine's respectable family at once by getting Verlaine drunk every night. When Verlaine's wife found on Rimbaud's pillow "little insects which she had never seen before," her husband laughed. Explained Verlaine: Rimbaud keeps "such parasites in his hair to have them handy to throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses...
...wordless, 1,000-year-old ceremony, Grandfather Prajadhipok (who abdicated the Siamese throne in 1935) and 20 guests made passes over little Prince Tejansakti's body with cords to trap the evil spirits, which were then burned with the cords. King Prajadhipok snipped a lock of hair from the baby's head, wrapped it in lotus leaves, set it afloat down the river. Finally, Grandfather Prajadhipok sprinkled holy water from a Thai temple on Tejansakti's downy pate. Then everybody sat down, sipped champagne...