Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says that they will see ghosts along its bank. Of these by far the most familiar spirit is "The Main John," old John Glasier. He was so nearly drowned during a log drive that he lost his hair when he was 20 and ever afterward wore a bushy brown wig topped by a stovepipe hat. He never doffed either, even when pulling a key log in a bad jam. He seldom talked except to his fabulous horse, Bonnie Doone, who could travel 65 miles in six hours. Later he became one of Canada's first Senators, gave up lumbering...
...robe and white, horsehair wig, Sir Oscar Bedford Daly looked like Oliver Cromwell. The Chief Justice of His Majesty's Supreme Court for the Bahamas was taking testimony in longhand. Before him, at two curved tables, the inner and the outer bar, sat the wigged Crown Counsel and the Defense Attorneys. Their robes were black. Beyond them lolled a dozen U.S. newsgatherers and the 105 black & white citizens of Nassau who had come early enough to get seats. At one side of the shabby, formal room sat the prisoner at the bar, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny...
...safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...
...human mind," said he once, "is that which arises from an understand ing of neither side of the case." On judges : "The secret [of being a successful judge consists], I fancy, in two things: first, a prolonged and severe training at the Bar; secondly, a full-bottomed wig. . . . The business of a judge is to hold his tongue until the last possible minute and to try to be as wise as he is paid to look...
King and Lords accepted him, the doorkeeper of the Commons announced: "Speaker elected." Brown entered the Speaker's House, donned his full-bottomed wig and the Speaker's traditional large black gown. Then the Sergeant at Arms, majestically carrying the gold mace of royal authority over his shoulder, marched Brown to the Chair of the House. Brown sat down: he was Britain's 139th Speaker of the Commons...