Word: haired
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then there were little boxes in the window with odd labels, such as "Peerless Corn Salve;" "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator; buy it, try it, and be no longer annoyed with cockroaches in your kitchen;" "Patent Labor-Saving Cleaning Powder," with the face of a female with abundant hair reflected in a table-spoon, and the like...
...party of seven undergraduate students at Keble College, Oxford, recently walked into the room of one of the most inoffensive of their fellow students, and cropped his hair so as to give him the appearance of a convict. - [London Truth...
...Yesterday, at the coliseum, they acted shamefully. When the dozen virgins were about to enter the dens to be eaten by the animals, a body of students, without the slightest regard for the presence of the Emperor, went up and coolly asked the girls for a lock of their hair. And it was only a week ago that we gave an account of a student who killed a barber, because when he asked to be shaved, the barber innocently asked him "if he'd send his slave to get it." The Emperor should impress upon the pupils and their pedagogues...
...poetry is to shock people's sense of decency, * * * and that a very good substitute for fame is the notoriety attracted by silliness. * * * What he has to say is not new, and his extravagance is not extravagant enough to amuse the average American audience. His knee-breeches and long hair are good as far as they go; but Bunthorne has really spoiled the public for Wilde...
Oscar must have heard of the great field, for at this remark his eyes gleamed with the fire of trembling delirium; his hair would certainly have stood on end, but the length refused this outrage to its gravity...