Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This hair-pin - ah! can I forget...
...University Nine has been the theme of an unusually large amount of comment this year, and the fact that that comment is not very favorable shows that there must be some points open to criticism. Several games were lost by a hair's-breadth, and we were led to attribute this result to "hard luck;" but we think that the causes of our ill-success lie deeper than that. The base-running, on the whole, has been poor, and it is safe to say that the second game, if no other, with Yale, was lost through this deficiency. The fielding...
...lunatic Asylum. Why? Well, of course, different people show their insanity in different ways. If you should ask me how you show yours, I might tell you that you have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe you call it. But goodness preserve me from such a disposition...
...will be surprised, O friend of my bosom, to learn that here neither the men nor the women attach any importance to their hair. None of the graces of a closely cropped crown or a long plait adorn American heads. The men cut off their hair in places called barber's shops, where three times a week they have their faces painted white with a mixture of froth and fire-water. I was curious to visit such a barber's shop, and what did I see? Three men were stretched out full-length and wrapped up in towels, with shut...
BLUE, wistful eyes, and hair...