Word: wigged
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...uncertainty. Last week's vote-counting became an occasion for 40 minutes of horselaughs and whoopee. The outward forms, the ancient lines and cues, seemed as comical to those Congressmen who bothered to attend, as would have been the spectacle of a gentleman in knee breeches and powdered wig riding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a sulky...
...Speaight posed himself for 18 of them. He donned a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume for a famed maker of child photographs, he dressed as a woman for a taker of women's photographs; posing for a man who made portrait studies of five Lord Chancellors he put on wig and robe...
Imposing in great wig and majestic robes, Baron Hewart said: "It is impossible to say that there is not ample evidence to find that this appellant committed this crime. Miao is guilty of a diabolical, calculated crime. This appeal is dismissed...
...Toronto last week one Norman Douglas pulled at his dark brown hair. It came off his head, a wig. Exposed was a skull cap, like the Pope's. Only, instead of being white it was dark green. Norman Douglas put his hands carefully...
...Family could observe his semi-divinity lying in bed, but the next order of noblemen was admitted to see him dip his hand in holy water, climb out of bed, and don his dressing gown. The third order then entered to see the king shave and put on his wig. And last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe the rest of the ceremony: royal breeches and hose, royal shirt by way of the First Valet of the Wardrobe, to the Grand Master of the Wardrobe, to the Dauphin, to the King. "At this crucial moment, while...