Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington health centre have failed to reduce his girth. He is troubled about it. His dress is dandified. He wears silk shirts in bright colors and stripes and, often, stiff collars to match. His feet are small and well-shod. Beneath his habitual derby hat his hair is turning thin and grey. Society is his prime diversion. Of secondary interest are motoring, sporting events, the theatre. In Washington he occupies an expensive suite of rooms at the luxurious Carlton Hotel on 16th Street. A good and frequent host himself, he accepts all invitations out, is one of the most lionized...
...Havana, a baby born to blonde Senora Caridad Perez developed black eyes, dark skin, kinky hair. A baby born to brunette Bernardina Vega became blonde, blue-eyed. Senor Perez sued for divorce. Police investigated, found that the babies, born in the same hospital, had been bathed together, mixed. Senor Perez canceled his suit...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...
...Small Italian donkeys upon whose backs a cross of black hair grows, believed to have descended from the animal which bore Jesus into Jerusalem...
...barbers assembled. Said one: "Those of us who rely entirely on shaves and haircuts for existence must be ranked with the village tonsorial artist who makes a sideline of pulling teeth." A barber of standards, it was pointed out, would necessarily have studied hygiene, bacteriology, histology of the hair, skin, nails, muscles, and nerves. He would know the structure of the face and neck. He would be able to bleach and tint hair...