Word: headgear
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...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...
...singing voice is pleasant but weak and is not (as with Ethel Merman, her partner and predecessor in this glorification of vulgarity) a thing which is funny in itself. Miss Walker must rely on her wide variety of comical walks, certain headgear which always manages to get in her eyes, outlandish get-ups which frequently hide all but that jutting chin, and a face that could never be forgiven, were it anything but funny. Above all this, Miss Walker has the common touch. (To which she would surely reply: "If its common...
...Manhattan's cafe society, trying to keep up with Paris and London, threw its first Bal de Tete. Jarmila Novotna, opera singer, won first prize for the "most beautiful" headgear, a concoction of butterflies and twigs. Mrs. Brooks Howe's was "most ingenious"-a stocking cap, complete with...
...Most of the fellows think they're going to box right away," Lamar laughed. On the contrary, beginners are drilled in the rudiments for well over a month before they square off. Advanced students, however, work on the bags and in the ring, wearing protective headgear. And everybody gets calisthenics...