Word: haired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldtimers at the opening of Congress were surprised to see a small brown-haired girl, handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father...
Professor Weigl, said Marianne, ties a louse on a glass slide with a paper band, places it under a microscope. With a syringe and a glass tube fine as a hair, he injects a tiny drop of solution containing the virus, previously procured from infected guinea pigs, into the louse's intestinal opening. Then he imprisons the louse in a cage about the size of a matchbox, which has one side covered with fine silk gauze. Through the gauze the lice stick their mandibles. With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife...
...niece . . . and passed along a corridor with two Negroes serving punch (nonalcoholic, I think) in the big ballroom. The first eight feet of the ballroom was crammed with the stag line of surplus young men. These young men varied enormously. Mass observation showed that only one in 20 wore hair lotion and that about one in ten had his hair cropped like a convict. The editor of the Tailor and Cutter would have burst into tears over the cut of the tails. Actually two of the men were in dinner jackets. The girls . . . were mostly small and often pretty, could...
...mortified his flesh with scourges and a hair shirt, ate mostly boiled potatoes, in general mistreated his body so that his doctor said "science could not explain how he remained alive." For 35 years, according to his account and those of his associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse...
Author White is a typical English country lover, in appearance much like his beloved cocker spaniel. He has the same alert, thoroughbred look, the same wavy hair. He lives in a gamekeeper's cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...