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...black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral . . . His turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow neck; and above that . . . bristling and compact like a riff of mourning pins, rose the strange, quaint face and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair...
...composed as cats sitting by the fire in the circle of their tails." The change that has come over old rural England is made plain as she observes that "the cowman now feels closer to his electric milking-machine than to his cows, and for every laborer who can thatch a hayrick there are a dozen who can take a tractor to pieces...
...rostrum in the old papal courthouse where Italy's Chamber of Deputies fights its stormy battles had the broad, florid face of a peasant surmounted by a thatch of obstreperous, oiled-down red hair. But the voice that came out was the courtly, confident baritone of a man who, to the surprise of almost all concerned, has blossomed almost overnight into Italy's leading statesman. For two hours last week, Premier Giuseppe Pella ranged over Italy's relations with the rest of the world...
Champion Shields looks like a sailor. He has a thatch of white hair over tanned, weather-beaten features. His clear brown eyes are edged with crowfeet wrinkles from squinting into the sun. Broad-shouldered and stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 180 lbs.), Shields stays in trim by doing a good part of the work on his own boat. A non-smoker (he gave up cigars 15 years ago) and a lifetime teetotaler, he has the wind to stay under water close to a minute at a time, as he lovingly swabs smooth the gleaming green hull of his International sloop...
...with a thick thatch of greying hair, Physicist Harnwell, a graduate of Haverford and a Ph.D. from Princeton, arrived at Pennsylvania to find it teaching the same sort of physics it was giving back in the 1890s. Within a few years, Harnwell had revolutionized his department, managed a $2,700,000 physics building. He was awarded the Medal for Merit for his war work in Navy radio and sound research, including sonar...