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...none other than Edward Windsor. No newcomer to the Equator is H.R.H. He first crossed the Line in 1920, crossed again last year on his interrupted African hunting trip which he is now completing, and was once incautious enough to allow himself to be festively photographed in a blonde wig, a most effeminate dressing gown, a palpably false bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Return to Sex | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...Wig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Louis one Sam Lehrer was held up by a Negro thug who, finding no money, clipped off a seven-inch length from Lehrer's beard, departed saying: "I shall sell this for a wig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...What," cried the magistrate, starting beneath his wig, "you made a fortune out of cat's meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cat's Meat | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Just as modest was Norman J. Makin. newly appointed Speaker of the Australian Parliament. At news of his appointment he summoned reporters, announced that he would follow the precedent of previous Labor Speakers and wear neither wig nor robes in Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: In Steps Scullin | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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