Word: pigtail
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...thumb (George Pal; MGM) is one of the nicest Christmas presents Hollywood ever gave the pigtail-and-popgun set. Producer George Pal has managed to mingle puppets, live actors and animated cartoons with such skill that not once can the spectator see the embarrassing seam where two sorts of cinema meet. As a piece of entertainment, the film is unusually fresh and appealing; it is kid stuff, but it will probably sell a lot of popcorn to the grownups...
...voice, said another doctor, was in the early days "an authentic cry of starvation." Far from least, there was the late George Evans, Sinatra's pressagent, who more than any man helped to pull Frank up by his bobby-sox. He organized all the excitement into the pigtail platoon that pushed Frank over...
Hair styling, history tells us, first came to the New World in the form of a severe off-the-waist pigtail sweeping primly off the pure brow of one Hepzibah Smith, colonist. Spreading swiftly over the continent, it soon replaced the more primitive native styles; pigtails were seen everywhere in the land and few there were who dared to flaunt the dictates of the prevailing fashion...
...cannot predict the future with assurance (though we may look to it with dread). But we can point to the trend. In general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future...
Notable is a notorious den on Upper Plympton Street, where a CRIMSON photographer, disguised as a opium smoker with a camera hidden in his pigtail, snapped this picture. Police threaten to resort to DDT bombs unless the nest of uncleanligodliness is cleaned up by the end of the week...