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Word: horsehair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stucco bungalow; she gets dressed in a room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles, she was the only cinema star who entertained him. At parties she gives imitations of Lillian Gish (in suspense), Jetta Goudal (with horsehair), the Prince of Wales (fatigued), Mae Murray (lip) and herself. Two years ago, becoming 30, she turned comedian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool-carding used as a substitute for feathers and horsehair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Looking Ahead | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...your bill. First, you are going to let bones come in free, and Brazilian pebbles. Then, bristles, if they are crude, cuttlefish bone, dry insects, stems of vegetables and flowers?I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs, free. Fish skins, fossils, dragon's blood. Horsehair, hoops, old junk. If it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded dice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded dice in this bill. And seaweed?that just drifts in. Nux vomica, rags, shavings, old paper, rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ebullient Partisan | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

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