Word: wig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dentist. But, Miss Hornsby-Smith insisted, many of the new changes are not as unreasonable as Labor alleged. For instance, said she, the new ?3 charge for orthopedic shoes (actual cost, ?9) is what most Britons pay for ordinary shoes, and those who must now pay $7 for a wig will not have to pay over the months for haircuts. As for charging $2.80 for abdominal belts, "so far as women are concerned, this belt frequently takes the place of a generally worn garment by which they endeavor to conceal their inches and hold up their stockings," and which usually...
...Cambridge, Taft appeared at the Patriots' Day exercise, smiled indulgently as a rider in a wig and tricornered hat arrived on his way to warn Lexington the British were coming. He kept right on smiling as a band of anti-Taft Harvard students hoisted placards proclaiming a Taft cabinet: Joe McCarthy for Attorney General, Chiang Kai-shek as Secretary of State, General MacArthur as Secretary of Defense, Fred Hartley (of Taft-Hartley) as Secretary of Labor, and Ohio's Senator John Bricker as Secretary of Commerce...
...Regular. When the curtain went up, Stage Director Lunt himself pranced out in maroon livery and powdered wig. He cleared his throat commandingly, waved a couple of latecomers to their seats, then went through the stage business of lighting a row of electric footlights with a taper, all to great applause...
Next day, in full-bottomed wig, black breeches, silver-buttoned jacket, black silk hose and silver-buckled slippers, Shakes took his place in the high-backed, canopied Speaker's chair. He was a Tory no longer (and the precarious Tory majority was reduced by one, to 26), for Mr. Speaker must stay studiously aloof from voting and debates alike. His power is immense. He presides over debates but does not take part in them, wielding procedural authority which garrulous U.S. legislators might consider tyrannical. He can silence members guilty of "irrelevance or tedious repetition," thus preventing filibusters...
...kinds of illness pried her away from Murry; she spent much time in the south of France trying to recover, but even more in a kind of private hell. The letters are bulletins posted outside the sick room of her soul. At first, pet names (she was "Tig" or "Wig," he was "Jag" or "Bogey") and candid passion masked the symptoms. "I love you with every inch of me . . . You are my perfect lover . . . Hold me, Bogey, when I write those words, for I am in your arms . . . Now I am giving you all sorts of little hugs and kisses...