Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Algernon Fitzroy did not have the political power of U.S. Speakers, but his prestige was greater. Like his U.S. counterparts, he was chosen by the majority party, but his tenure did not, as in the U.S. depend upon that party's staying in power. When he donned the wig he resigned from his party, could look forward to a lifetime job or (if he got too feeble) to a peerage when he retired. Like all good British Speakers-and there have been few bad ones in recent times-Captain Fitzroy had to become a political agnostic, impartially guiding...
...King's wish that another Speaker be appointed. Two M.P.s propose and second a man agreed upon by Tories and Laborites. The new Speaker formally "protests his unworthiness," is then elected and conducted to the seat of Commons' authority. At this stage he wears a bobbed wig. The King is asked to approve the choice. When he does (in practice, he must), the Speaker may don a long, full-bottomed wig. Then, and then only, the House is constitutionally complete and able to proceed with Britain's business...
Luis Herrera Guevara, who has not a hair on his head, sports a black wig in winter, a reddish one in summer. He admits: "Often I make mistakes, put two balconies on a house when there should be three. . ." This does not bother his admirers...
Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck...
...much that Vag was unhappy, it was just that this news struck home. Although it was obviously necessary, it was still a hard blow. After a summer of daily classes, a summer of bright colors on Widener steps, of girls in the Yard and high voices along Wig row, they expected you to start all over again as though nothing had happened. A week's respite and the long, grey eternity of the Fall Term would begin again. Long evenings in the House library, rain and fog, November hours, early dusk, tutorial conferences, all stood beckoning ghoulishly...