Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest as the hoop-skirt, and as to those much-abused bangs it has always been a mystery to me what the average male intellect could see so utterly soul-destroying in a very becoming mode of dressing the hair. But you know that a certain minister went so far as to forbid the young ladies of his church wearing the alluring bang. Of course you have read Mr. Grant's clever little book, "Confession of a Frivolous Girl," and perhaps you know many, many Alice Palmers, and some who flirt...
...trust, however, that whatever the result may be, no undue enthusiastic levity will be shown, such as carrying the victors about on the shoulders, begging for locks of hair, etc., etc. It is said that the president will give a banquet of ginger-ale and crackers to the winners. This munificence calls for the highest commendation, and a cup from the Athletic Association if they have one left...
...first time that Saug Centre was not the "Hub" but that Boston was the "Hub," and he had only been living on the end of one of the spokes. Now Butterfield was no fool. It is true he had a few remnants of hay-seed in his hair and wore a hat and a suit of clothes that attracted more attention on Tremont street than he expected, but he had a fair allowance of brains under his hat, and a pair of shears in the hands of a barber and a tailor of my acquaintance was all that was necessary...
...dress. The waist of this costume was of the same color and material as the skirt and was full in front with plaited puffs on the shoulders and very tight sleeves, and was finished off at the neck by an old-fashioned and very broad lace collar. Her hair was cut short and rumpled all over her head, and she wore neither flowers nor jewelry. Asphyxia being tall and and very slender and wearing eyeglasses, reminded one of the picture I have seen somewhere of "an old baby." The child having gray hair and an old face and smoking...
Then I felt sure Mr. Butterfield, senior, had sandy hair and a sandy beard, and was long and thin, what his neighbors called "rather a spare man;" I had also decided that he had large hands and feet, and wore spectacles and storeclothes; that he was bigotedly honest and never touched a drop of anything...