Word: mane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty years ago Paderewski made his U.S. debut, a glamorous figure with a red-gold mane which excited the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the day. Red-blooded males snorted at "this Paderooski," but everywhere he drew adoring throngs, from whom policemen sometimes had to rescue...
...with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush for U.S. citizenship, applied for her first papers...
...were sitting in the park because only there could they get away from purring telephones and the endless shuffling of papers. One of them, lean, very tall (6 ft., 3½-in.), with a middle-parted mane of thick, snowy hair, cool, amused, shrewd eyes, was dressed conservatively and expensively, his crossed legs revealing old-fashioned high-lace shoes, with a boot pull at the back. The other, of medium height, fat, young, voluble, looked like an aggressive laundry bag; he was dressed as if various garments had been thrown on him as he hurried past...
Morris Bagby was one of the last links with Franz Liszt. Musician Bagby never learned from the master how to be a virtuoso pianist, but he played whist with Liszt, and like other pupils reverently snitched the hairs which drifted from Liszt's white mane to the collar of his morning coat. Morris Bagby heard Brahms play the piano, "as though he had ten thumbs." When Pianist Bagby returned to the U. S., he was invited by Julia Ward Howe to read a paper at Newport's Town and Country Club. Mrs. Howe's daughter advised...
Last week Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, went to the oldest and third oldest universities in the U. S. to get honorary degrees. Harvard and Yale greeted him affectionately. Sandburg, wearing a gown but no cap, his white mane and rugged face gleaming in the sun, gave their commencements a flash of homely Americanism, a flash just bright enough to illumine the shadow of European affairs that all but blacked out their gay, traditional ceremonies...