Word: haired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well he knows how ephemeral is the faith that holds the rest of it together. To restore confidence in a name that for half a century has stood for the exploitation of human gullibility to gratify one man's caprice is a job to make anyone's hair fall out. Judge Shearn was bald when he took...
...this was revolutionary theatre when, in the 18705, Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus was built to mount it properly. It is no longer revolutionary, for the Metropolitan, like the Festspielhaus, is hidebound by the Ring tradition that not a hair of Wotan's beard must be altered, not a comma of Wagner's copious stage directions deleted...
Some of Marguerite Robert' aphorisms are priceless, and others seem to have been disinterred from the grave of Oscar Wilde. Concerning scenes, the first and last are too long, the others good; the scene where the two starts get slightly squiffed on applejack and take down their hair is excellent, likewise the one in which Miss Chatterton finds that the new plumbing fixtures she has ordered are not the color she expected...
...rival editor called him a "powdered ape" who knocked down a young girl and stole her hair for his wig. Another libelously linked him with the "Mohawks," a gang of London roughnecks who rolled stray females in barrels and cut off the noses of wandering drunks. Actually he seems to have been an obscure, spry, spare little man with a "brown complexion and dark brown-coloured hair ... a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes and a large mole near his mouth...
...contenders is the well-balanced band fronted by Singer Bob Crosby. The Bob Cats, exponents of a modernized Dixieland Style, are well-regarded by discerning swing fans. Another potential champion is the band headed by diminutive Bobby Hackett, whose graceful, sure trumpet, as well as his down-the-middle hair-comb and tiny mustache, is reminiscent of the late great Bix Beiderbecke...