Word: mop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the House of Representatives, hunting "that fellow behind the tree." took its orders from a tall, lanky North Carolina farmer, bald as a buzzard and a short, chunky New York lawyer with a mop of shiny black hair. The first was Robert Lee Doughton, a Democrat who has served 20 years in the House and is a member of the Ways & Means Committee. The second was Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry La Guardia, an insurgent Republican in the House since the War. Poles apart on politics and personality they were united last week in a great and vehement opposition...
Fiery Fury. Governor Murray spruced up for the occasion. His lean wrinkled face had been shaved. His mop of thick greying hair was carefully combed. He wore a clean white shirt and his blue suit was pressed. Those who went to Collinsville to see a rustic figure in mismatched clothes and red suspenders were disappointed. But there was no disappointment in the fiery fury of the Murray speech. He began, as usual, by harking back to his early days when he was "born in a cotton patch during a November snowstorm; rocked in the cradle of adversity; chastened by hardship...
...Golf Champion of the U.S. She outdrives any woman opponent and most men. Two years ago she won the first 72-hole medal tournament for women, at Flossmoor, Ill. by 14 strokes. Now 20, Billie Hicks has a freckled nose, fat cheeks, hirsute forearms, chubby legs, a mop of dark hair, a broad Irish grin. She likes to read (John Galsworthy, Louis Bromfield), likes better to race about in her father's big sedan or the smaller car he gave her two years ago. A month ago someone asked her who she thought would win the championship this year...
...having his life turn into a Horatio Alger tale. Johnny Farrar was a poor boy from Vermont. When he went to Yale to join its strong Class of 1919 he had no influential friends, no cushiony background to carry him over the bumps. Small, squeaky-voiced, with a tousled mop of red hair, Farrar did not look like the Boy Who Made Good. But by junior year he was known and liked by everyone that counted in the college. He edited the Lit, left college to go to War, came back to take his degree with such friends as Stephen...
Anita Colombo is everything that a Latin feels a woman should not be. Instead of being a voluptuous ornament to couch and fireside, mother of many, she is a spinster, an energetic, athletic, "emancipated" woman. Half-German, Jewish, she has a mop of un-waved blonde hair, a keen, sculptured face which powder & lipstick never have touched. Born in Milan some 35 years ago, she wanted first to be a tomboy. When Italy entered the World War she hurried off to the front, did Red Cross work, behaved (for a woman) preposterously: for gallant conduct she won the Bronze Medal...