Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennington, dancer: "The outer room of a hairdressing parlor at No. 1417 F. St., Washington, is adorned by a photograph of me, balanced on one toe. I gave this picture to the hairdresser in gratitude for a permanent wave well executed. Mrs. Coolidge entered this parlor early on her first day in Washington and called for a plain, old-fashioned shampoo followed by a conservative arrangement of her dark hair. Mrs. Coolidge uses no face clay, powder or cosmetics...
...Russian people are not bursting with enthusiasm. Their faces do not beam 24 hours in the day when they sing the Internationale and wave the red flag. Nor do they sit trembling in their apartments waiting for the executioner...
...hoped that the Government will devote its energies to suppressing the most annoying gambling evil in the Peninsula, the morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black...
...They agree, while traveling, to stay in their seats in the Pullman, and not to walk out onto the back platform and wave their handkerchiefs idiotically at the yokels." (Insult to Mr. Harding...
...heat wave, which was felt over the entire continent of Europe, reached a severe temperature in London. The exact height of the mercury is not stated, but many people have died from prostration and sunstroke...