Word: maned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers who may have wondered where Senator Borah puts his mighty mane when he goes to bed, on the pillow or sticking out over the edge, learned at least one thing about his sleeping habits last week. When sleeping in a strange place, Senator Borah puts his pocketbook under his pillow...
...Presumably untrue is the tale that he got his stake in life through pocketing by agreement 40% of all he could wheedle from the late eccentric Baron Michelham in the interest of the estranged Baroness, Aimee Geraldine, nee Bradshaw. Today Captain Cohn, a fat, unctuous personage with a great mane of blond hair, is to be seen, sleekly appareled and carrying a lady's parasol to shield his eyes, at every major race meeting in Europe. Frequently, very frequently, his horses win. His Sir Galahad distanced Epinard in a match race for private stakes...
...David Lloyd George delivered on this general theme the greatest speech which he has made this year. His mane of white hair bristled, and he spoke with a fire that carried conviction...
...Forsyth, Mo., a Shetland pony, panic-stricken, plunged into the flooding White River. His pasture-mate, a mule, turned back from high ground and safety; plunged after, dragged the pony ashore by the mane...
...stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged for a spotlight directly over his head. This was what disconcerted, for it was no modest white spotlight, but a refulgent yellow sun. It shed a mighty and beatific radiance upon the waving Stokowski mane, which, grizzled by daylight, became golden, heavenly, divine. It almost seemed to Manhattan critics that M. Stokowski, in his desire to hide his orchestra for the music's sake, had inadvertently made himself a cynosure for all the extra attention he had hoped to gain for his music. Unkind critics...