Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porte, Ind. Let Marian Shields's teacher, without abandoning healthy skepticism, hesitate to cry "impossible!" Henry Mates, aged 5, of Washington, D. C., did go bald (see cut). His hair did begin falling out soon after he had been scared by a fox terrier puppy. A doctor was called. Henry had had no illness, such as typhoid fever, which might have affected his hair. The doctor said, and other doctors have hesitated to contradict him, that scare and baldness were evidently cause and effect. Let Marian Shields's teacher not be dogmatic, not withhold Marian Shields...
...strange procession wound between the marble pillars and overstuffed chairs. First came a clergyman in surplice and stole. Then came a number of large dignified gentlemen in silk hats and cutaway coats, and finally a file of choir boys, correctly black cassocked and white collared but with hair strangely mussed, cheeks unusually bright...
...Grecian "poker" face showed, beside her equally statuesque blonde California friend Harriet ("Hatsy") Walker. Unperturbed, while sweating policemen held back the crowds, Miss Wills sketched in a notebook. After a while she pulled the side curtains of the car, leaned back without disturbing the feathers in her hair, daydreamed. In the line in another car (make unnoticed) sat Miss Virginia Willys of Toledo, Ohio, daughter of Motor-maker John North Willys...
...debutantes entered, three white feathers in their hair, court trains trailing just 18 inches on the ground behind them, long white gloves on their arms. One by one they curtsied as the chamberlain read their names aloud, and walked backwards to the side of the throne room. Each presentation took just 30 seconds. Miss Wills was seen to smile slightly as the Queen dipped her head in acknowledgment of the Wills curtsey...
...architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club in his hand...