Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowed in the Stampede, the picture's plot calls for a hard-riding heroine to shame the hero into being a real bronco-busting man. A former world's champion all-round cowboy, Jerry Ambler, got the assignment to double for redheaded Joan Leslie. In a red wig, he came out of the chutes at the fair grounds, astride a bucking bull. The grandstands hooted...
...Grant Wood's famed picture of him, Parson Weems peeps from behind a curtain as George Washington admits he chopped down the cherry tree. His friends would never recognize egg-bald George Dinsmore Stoddard as the parson; Grant Wood put a wig on him when he posed...
...first London merchant to buy U.S. style full-page newspaper ads and to boast of such unique department-store services as wart removal, pipe cleaning, coal delivery, cricket-bat oiling, wig making, expert umbrella rolling...
...title be spelled that way), wearing knee breeches and black silk stockings, bore on his right shoulder the five-foot, knob-headed gilded mace which is the House of Commons' symbol of authority. Then, stiff and staring straight ahead, came the Speaker, handsome Colonel Clifton Brown. His grey wig reached to the shoulders of his long black gown, the train of which was carried by a bearer...
...sand-colored marble palace in Athens, a short (5 ft. 2 in.), stiff-backed gentleman was having a lonely lunch of a simple entree and fruit. George of Schles-wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, King of the Hellenes, was suffering from a stomach ulcer, and a heavier meal, combined with all his worries about his realm, would have been inadvisable...