Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hair fern used by florists in arranging and pack inn bouquets...
Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...Married in 1927 by Mayor Walker, dramatic demonstrations of love gave Mr. Bohnen and Miss Lewis the reputation of being an ideal couple. Last week Miss Lewis charged that: In Manhattan Mr. Bohnen tried to make her leap from a window; in Paris he dragged her around by the hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made outside court, Miss Lewis said, "He is a fine man and I love him. It seems that we cannot live together...
...remember the picture. She goes down to her cabin and stands in front of the wash basin. Because she is standing there she starts to wash her hands, then all of a sudden, to keep from crying, sticks her head in the basin and begins to wash her hair. When her sweetheart comes in and hands her the towel she is groping for she pretends to him that everything is all right. She convinces you then that she has complete knowledge of her part, and you accept without much argument the later scenes in which, marrying a mild fellow ashore...
ROPER'S Row-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2.50). "Dark and pale," Chris Hazzard was a "little fellow, narrow shouldered, fragile, and lame"-with a big head and "defiant" hair and "a something in his eyes." Ruth Avery, living next-room in London's poverty-stricken Roper's Row, was "a dusky thing, far darker than he was-slim and sensitive . . . not smiling her face had a mute, apprehensive sadness." Yet to Ruth, as to all persons, Hazzard felt unfriendly, not only because he thought his lameness set him apart, but because all social feelings were at a very...