Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival editor called him a "powdered ape" who knocked down a young girl and stole her hair for his wig. Another libelously linked him with the "Mohawks," a gang of London roughnecks who rolled stray females in barrels and cut off the noses of wandering drunks. Actually he seems to have been an obscure, spry, spare little man with a "brown complexion and dark brown-coloured hair ... a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes and a large mole near his mouth...
Bauer served as a bodyguard for the Fuehrer by wearing a wig and other-wise disguising himself but meanwhile was continually studying to impersonate Hitler...
With the help of Norma Shearer's much-publicized blonde wig, M.G.M. has produced an acceptable remake of Robert Shorwood's 1936 Broadway success, "Idiot's Delight." As a movie it has a high percentage of entertainment value, but it lacks the intellectual force of the stage production. The elements which made the play such a success on Broadway have been cut out, one by one, to sop rural box office, industrial interests, and Mussolini. With such a great amount of vitality drained from the original play, the movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess...
...smuggled in a dwarf for Snow White, a wig for Shirley Temple, shoes for Garbo, size 9, a necktie for Charlie McCarthy, a rattle for Mickey Mouse and a corncob pipe for Popeye...
Phenomena. "Dull but important" is Senator O'Mahoney's apologetic phrase for the Investigation. He hoped to make witnesses, however big of wig, feel (though subpoenaed) like voluntary bugs on a slide instead of the quarry in a witch-hunt. His program first called up big bugs from the motors and glass industries-Edsel Ford, William Knudsen, George A. Ball, William Levis-to be examined scientifically with special reference to their patent and sales practices as typical U. S. industrial phenomena...