Word: pompadour
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...appearance he is tall (6 ft.), well-built (190 lb.). He wears his grey-blond hair in a pompadour. His hands are white, delicate, almost feminine. His clothes run to quiet greys. Off the Senate floor, he is bashful, almost silent. On the floor he makes an impressive figure when he rises to speak. His speeches, however, delivered in a slow deliberate voice faintly touched with a foreign accent, are usually heavy, pedantic, unexciting...
...Henry, third son of Their Majesties, took an orchestra and a gay group of passengers to the ship's nursery for dancing. Discovering a set of scales with height-measuring attachment, H. R. H. proceeded to weigh and measure each & every guest. When a guest with a high pompadour stepped up, Prince Henry pressed his hair down, remarked: "I have to pat you down like papa does mamma sometimes...
Kathe Schratt was an actress. The Emperor met her when she was playing leading roles in the old Burgtheater near the Palace in Vienna, but although she played the part many times on the stage Kathe Schratt was no Pompadour. She recognized that Der Alte Kaiser was completely bourgeois at heart. He dearly loved a good schnitzel and a flask of Muskateller, simple things that he could not enjoy at the palace. Kathe Schratt, like a good housewife, provided such homely comforts. At her little house within easy walking distance of the gates of Schonbrunn (the summer palace) the Emperor...
Jeremiah K. Donovan is a smallish man who brushes up his hair into an impressive pompadour and who wears ice-cream suits and gay bow ties in the summertime. He works as a clerk in a tiny office in Lawyers Title & Guaranty Co., goes home every night to a furnished room in Brooklyn. When newshawks swooped down on him last week they found him unperturbed by his bankruptcy, and quite sane. It was a real bankruptcy, and his assets were only $100, and his liabilities were over $44,000,000-and yet his creditors would lose considerably less than...
...this palace have slept Madame de Pompadour, the Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Alexander I, Queen Victoria and the Sultan Abdul Aziz?though not all at the same time. Here Napoleon Bonaparte signed his second abdication as Emperor of the French. Here since 1873 have slept the twelve Presidents of the French Republic...