Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Havana, a Mrs. Bernard Duis bought two bright, lively birds whose plumage matched her red hair. When she reached Manhattan by boat last week, the birds no longer matched her hair. Artificially dyed, their feathers had "run," faded...
...thoughtfully, individually. Dodsworth is a type, recognizable, familiar; but the type is susceptible to variations. Fran's type also is familiar−to those who read Henry James, and dally in cosmopolitan circles. Literati have even traced resemblances to the first Mrs. Lewis, substituted dark for ash-blond hair, substituted this for that and that for this, thought her the prototype for Fran...
...Wife. Daughter of a beef-colored burgher, who had brewed his way into millions and respectability, Fran was. nevertheless, poised and luminous. She had been to Europe and to an Eastern finishing school; she had born and bred two children; aged 41, she looked a decade younger, for her hair was ash-blond, her figure slim. She talked occasional baby-talk to Sam, tolerated his lovemaking, entertained his friends. Her time was filled with clubs, committees, charities, and bridge; but when Sam sold out his automobile business to a motor corporation, and was temporarily free, she declared her boredom...
...Giuliano did one thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
...debutantes and others who will don white gloves, pin three feathers in their hair and go to Buckingham Palace this Spring, will make their bows to Queen Mary alone, the Lord Chamberlain announced. There will be but one throne in the throne room at this year's formal courts. The Prince of Wales will lead his mother to the dais and then take his place in the family circle, below the dais and to one side...