Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this does not so much precipitate a mood as prescribe a method. One by one, each character is led up to the dark at the top of the stairs and revealed in his hair shirt. And each character's inner wound, however honestly representative, is dramatically a little commonplace. There is no enveloping mood to the play because there is recurrent parlor comedy and domestic vaudeville-things that instead of deepening the serious scenes emphasize them too much by contrast. Deeper chords never sound. The dark is there, truly enough; but it is much less terrifying, and even much...
Bequest to Venice. Now 59, with her hair died raven black and fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...
Headmaster. In Memphis, General Sessions Judge Heard Sutton ordered a 26-year-old man not to strike his wife, "or so much as to raise your hand to stir a wind that might blow her hair...
...Hair in Curls...
Owen Wister recalls, however, that a song written for the 1879 Dickey show referred to Roosevelt as "awful smart, with waxed mustache and hair in curls." Indeed, the Roosevelt of his college days looked nothing like the portly president of the 1900's. He was thin-faced and anemic, and had not yet developed the much-caricatured prominent teeth and jaw of his later years. He also wore reddish whiskers, carefully nurtured, which caused amusement in the Yard...