Word: thatched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talking picture, gave her Greta Nissen's role. In effect, Jean Harlow is a shiny refinement of Clara Bow. She is a competent though not a brilliant actress. Her contours are luxurious though slender; her face childish but engaging. Her most obvious and enticing quality is the peculiar pale thatch on top of her head. It got her her first part in the cinema, when a director noticed her standing outside a Kansas City drugstore. It caused her pressagent to invent the phrase "platinum blonde." It also caused a major revival of the hair-bleaching industry. Jean Harlow...
...week (see p. 15) were the Chinese merchants in Bangkok's Chinese business quarter. Nobody knew how it started, but fire broke out. In an hour black oily clouds rolled over the Me Nam River, flames leaped from shop to shop. Grilled balconies, Chinese lanterns, streamers, swinging signs, thatch roofs, telephone poles, all blazed up in the greatest fire Bangkok has ever known. Siamese firemen squirted ineffective streams. Five hundred buildings (chiefly Chinese) including the Bank of Canton were destroyed, for a total loss of over $2,000,000. Two thousand Chinese were left homeless. None died...
Other gardens were there to suit every taste: a tropical pool; two Alpine gardens complete with rocks and running brooks; Japanese gardens with twisted pine trees, thatch-roofed tea houses. All week long crowds of curious Easterners milled about the desert garden of Robert F. Manda where more than 1,000 varieties of weird misshapen cacti were growing in sand and rocks. Fourth day of the show the crowd grew even thicker. The "Crown of Thorns," a rare silver-grey prickle bush brought from Palestine by Cactus-grower Manda 25 years ago, had suddenly burgeoned with dozens of brilliant...
...last week: Bob Chanler was better, Bob Chanler was out of bed again. Dozens of them went down to offer their congratulations to one of the greatest painters, one of the most spectacular characters in the U. S. They found him, majestic in a long pink nightgown and shaggy thatch of white hair, sipping a stiff hooker of brandy, and playing Russian Bank with small, vivacious Mile Suzanne Tirlier, otherwise "Tilly," his secretary...