Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said bald-pated Golfer Crosby: "The real reason I came over was to get me a wig from the Labor government...
...Randolph case. By 1793, he was in ill health and on the verge of retirement from his law practice. But when desperate Richard Randolph, accused with his sister-in-law of murdering her newborn baby, doubled the fee, Lawyer Henry could not resist. He fitted on his brown wig, and hurried over to Cumberland Courthouse to appear as chief counsel for the defense...
...prostitutes are outlawed, but Tokyo's brothels, thinly disguised as "teahouses," still cater to an average of 500 customers nightly. Last week, each leaning on an attendant and trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume, two of Tokyo's leading "waitresses" led a regiment of lantern-bearers, bell-ringers, apprentice prostitutes and child attendants through the ancient three-hour procession. "We're certainly not trying to revive interest in prostitution," explained a spokesman for Tokyo's procurers...
...Schoefflers' 17-year-old son Peter, a British subject, is studying economics at Oxford. He wants to be a singer too ("he has the same voice I do"), but papa Schoeffler is trying to say no-"This business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night, it is no good...
...Chill in Court. "My Lord," began the Prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, his grey wig clamped firmly forward over his forehead, "this is a case of the utmost gravity . . . The prisoner is a Communist, and that is at once the explanation and indeed the tragedy of this case . . ." Shawcross went over the story that Fuchs had told in his confession -the course of a brilliant, morally blind man from confusion to total, irretrievable corruption (TIME...