Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scarlet Empress (Paramount) presents cinemaddicts with an opportunity to view the grandson of Massachusetts' late great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge dressed up in a neck-length wig, quaint mustachios and Russian boots, making love to Marlene Dietrich. Two years ago, when he was a hard-working young lawyer in Manhattan, John Davis Lodge went to Hollywood to join his dancer-actress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who had been duplicating Greta Garbo's voice in Italian and French versions of her films. Paramount officials offered him a screen test and a job. Said Actor Lodge, whose previous dramatic experience had been confined...
...assembly's official mace. Over the Speaker's dais was a canopy surmounted by a wooden figure of the British lion. Over the mace was what Commodore Chauncey, who had ferried Pike's men across the Lake, called a scalp. It was the Speaker's wig. The raiders took them all, as well as the royal standard flying over the Governor's house...
...ground. The burning of York was one of the reasons the British gave for their burning of Washington a year later. Three reminders of the York episode still lay last week in a showcase of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. They were mace, lion and standard. The wig had vanished...
...this seemed no great crime. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were never accused of bribery-by-belly when they hauled hollow-eyed politicians out of bed to attend early breakfasts at the White House and listen to Presidential persuasion. But Britain took the Churchill charge seriously. Grave under his wig, Speaker the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy allowed the resolution to be passed, without vote, to the Committee on Privilege for investigation...
...London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious...