Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...What," cried the magistrate, starting beneath his wig, "you made a fortune out of cat's meat...
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...
...friend of half the aristocracy of Europe, Frau Anna Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...