Word: mustachioed
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...love is a crime; all passion must be spent on nationalistic fervor and savage hatred of "Emmanuel Goldstein," the Trotzky-like leader of the anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired, black-mustachio'd" visage, pregnant with "power and mysterious calm," stares from walls in the streets and living rooms. Oceania's ideal citizen is Comrade Ogilvy...
...editors of Life contrived a more childish and practical solution. A page of four photographs called "Whiskerreotypes" in the current issue shows Senator Borah in a Chick Sale goatee. Vice President Garner in a facial fringe that makes him look like President Grant, Postmaster Farley in the handlebar mustachio of an oldtime bar keeper, and New York's onetime Mayor O'Brien in a shovel beard...
...Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
...photograph shown in conjunction with your P. M. A. article makes me think you have the Prince confused with his sparring partner. When did the noble gentleman shave his heavy black mustachio off? J. FRANZ FISHTER...
...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...