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Word: wigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Savage, frightened, ignorant of her rights, went with the police. What happened was elicited, last week, before the Extraordinary Tribunal, while the Lord Justice of Appeal listened in his great sweltering wig and the Countess of Oxford and Asquith cocked an ear. Chief points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Damnable Shame! | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...count, takes a train from Berlin to Vienna, meets a musician, stops off to spend a night of love. Soon she hears that her train was wrecked before it reached Vienna and that she was reported dead. So, seizing opportunity by the hair, she puts on a snow white wig, changes her name, becomes a woman of adventure. Later, her husband meets her, does not recognize her; cinemagoers are surprised at what happens. Pola Negri does well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Pola Negri's glittering photodrama "Three Sinners" is one of those pictures which thrill backwoods audiences and cause girls with limited wardrobes to leave home for Hollywood. The features of the hectic and soul-stirring tragedy are Pola's bare back and-her silver wig. She handles both capably, so capably in fact that Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Citizens of the U. S. learned with interest that the defense of Commander Daniel would be carried out by onetime Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts Day Kimball. Last week he, not yet accustomed to the heavy wig worn by British barristers, sweated excessively in the balmy air of Gibraltar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Admiral's Oaths | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Wild Oat. She runs a lunch counter. He is rich and romantic. He goes to Plymouth Beach. She follows him, wearing a wig and acting like a gold-digger's idea of a grande dame. He meets but does not recognize her. She says she is the Duchesse de Granville. The real Duchesse de Granville is his stepmother whom he has never seen. She, accordingly, is in a fix. She runs rapidly away, chased by police, house detectives, him. She returns to her lunchwagon. He ties the lunchwagon to his limousine and drags it to the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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