Word: henna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride, hist monthly editorial: "Drippings from the Fawcett." In elaborate metaphor he voices his love for the common people, liquor and the "pleasures of living"; his hate for Prohibition, reformers, censors, etc. etc. He enjoys referring to himself as "this bristle-whiskered old sodbuster." to his wife as "the henna-haired heckler." or "my weazened old Red Head." He relishes a reputation as a benevolent reprobate. His glory is a stag party. Famously hospitable. Publisher Fawcett built a lodge in the wilderness on the shores: of Pelican Lake, 170 mi. west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests...
Recipients, numerous, were all Rumanians who had remained "loyal" to Carol after he abdicated as Crown Prince, abandoned his wife and baby son in Bucharest, went abroad with henna-haired Magda Lupescu...
...Cabled to George V, received a reply?the first personal message sent to Rumania's new king by Great Britain's old one, who did not receive him when he was last in England with his henna-haired mistress, Magda Lupescu...
...Wall Street; Uncle Sam pouring poison into a bottle of whiskey; City Hall Riot, painted on two sheets of wall board by the members of the John Reed Club* which shows a prognathous-jawed policeman with an emerald-green face cracking the pate of an unfortunate individual with a henna nose. Last week's exhibition differed from other Independent shows in that it was a memorial to the late Robert Henri (TIME, July 22). Among the 1,200 examples of self-expression that hung on the exhibition walls, Robert Henri's five sombre sure-fingered canvases shone like...