Word: unshorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samson complex, or the belief that unshorn locks and bearded checks will aid an aspirant to examination honors is the most frequently observed oddity of local scholars. Associated with this habits is the custom of wearing the same the and sitting in the same beat during tests. Almost two out of five fall victims to this Idiosucracy...
...disappeared. No one can account for her. All that is known is that three weeks ago she entered a beach hotel and reappeared in a bathing suit variously described as dark green or dark blue. She was a well formed woman and attracted many an idle eye. High-piled, unshorn dark hair; full, wide lips a little irregular; unusually white teeth; a generous nose; eager, long-lashed eyes-her description has been so minutely detailed that it is certain she prepared to go in swimming. Her bathing suit had a white edging around the armholes. It was a one-piece...
Every member of the Why-nots wears about his neck a brass collar on which is engraved the motto of the tribe: "Be Thyself!" This excellent precept is understood to mean: "Be different from everyone else!" So great is their zeal that they wear their hair long and unshorn, go without hats in all weathers, assemble to discuss poetry and free love when others are attending an athletic festival, and flood the bookstalls with tracts denouncing everybody and everything...
...found some people to proclaim anyone or anything from Voliva of Zion City to the Great Cham of Tartary. Such demonstrations cannot be taken, therefore, with the naive faith the newspapers seem to accord them. They do, however, feed the popular fear that every communist is an unshorn, unwashed carrier of death and destruction...
...Czar Convokes His First Crown Council," reads the headline. Grand Dukes of all the Russias, big and little, red and white shaven and unshorn, are ordered to assemble before the august resence of the Mightiest of the Mighty to center upon important matters of state. His Majesty Cyril I has spoken...