Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These are the two leading tribunals of the civilized world. Mr. Beck, who won a case before the Privy Council last Summer, is said to have been the first American jurist to appear before Great Britain's highest judicial tribunal. He was compelled to wear a gown and wig...
John D. Rockefeller: "It was learned that a Washington man named Lidoff has made my wigs ever since I resorted to artificial hair. It takes six weeks to fashion each head covering, as each must be formed hair by hair. I have one wig for golf, another for church and several other ordinary wigs...
...University of Pennsylvania will provide entertainment for all delegates attending. A relay carnival has been arranged for Friday and Saturday afternoons, and the schedule of meetings has been so arranged that the representatives will be able to attend. The Mask and Wig Club will also give a special production of "Here's Howe!" on Friday evening. Several dinners and luncheons have been arranged at the Fraternity Houses...
What is the net result? Henry and Nichols built a workable plot and play. Somebody--evidently the body politic of the Hasty Pudding--said "let's not be content with the average performance. Let's not aim to compete with the Mask and Wig and the Triangle--not just yet. But let's entertain. Let's not try to imitate a Shubert revue. Let's jimmy up a show, give everybody a whack at it, get a competent coach, do what he says, and have an awful lot of fun doing it." The proof of the Pudding was the eating...
...Comedian. Lionel Atwill is confronted with the problem of aging gracefully in a few minutes. He appears as a distinguished actor whose mail is freighted with scented trifles. Among the young hearts fluttered by his brown wig and moustache is the adolescent ward of an old schoolmate of his. The latter, a rotund provincial, conceives a plan to break her of her attachment. Let her, thinks he, but see her idol as he is, gray-haired and middleaged, and she will march out of the dressing-room in disgust...