Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HELL-BENT PER HEAVEN - Canting theology in the Kentucky mountains swept away on the tidal wave of its own retribution...
...play ends in a rather unconvincing, if thoroughly conventional manner. Everybody reforms. Long Island apparently is swept by a wave of moral renaissance. However, they do it in an unobtrusive way, and it is something of an accomplishment to get all the characters with their plots and sub-plots straightened...
Charles Nestle, originator of the famed Nestle wave, addressed the American Master Hairdressers' Association at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan. Said he: "A few more years of the bobbed hair craze and the shingled belles and women will be as bald as men. The reason men become bald is because their hair is cut so often and so short. Each hair is supported by a muscle; as the hair grows heavier, the muscle grows proportionately stronger. But when the hair is cut, the muscle is deprived of its normal exercise, loses its function, the hair falls out. The most beautiful...
...negative side held that if the United States were to disarm, it would not necessarily mean that a wave of pacifism would sweep over the world. "We are exerting pressure on no one," said Birch, the first negative speaker. "Therefore, if we disarmed, no European nation would be benefited, while the weaker American nations would be deprived of our aid. The pacifist bases his present stand on conditions which will not exist for centuries. War will continue, until the people are educated against it from the cradle...
...attending sheep are unsafe. Even the dogs whine and hide when they get his spoor. The sport of tracking and killing such game is worthy of any of the men of the Capital. . . . We would like to see you and your friends enjoy this truly royal sport. . . . The cold wave we are having makes this a splendid time to catch the old fellow. One chased me half a mile one night, and parties of hunters have only succeeded in driving him quite close to the school...