Word: haired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...their tireless search for beauty, millions of U.S. women have tried to improve the looks of their hair by buying and using up millions of "cold-wave" kits. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has been checking on complaints that the home wave preparations* cause skin rashes and other ills. Most of the complaints appear to have originated in beauty parlors, whose business has been noticeably hurt by home waving...
...flashing-eyed, 20-year-old queen of the Western Hemisphere is 5 ft. 5 in. tall, weighs 120 Ibs. and has black hair, sweeping black lashes and a mouth compared by one inspired limeño to the ace of hearts. She also is heiress to a fortune of 500 million soles (more than $32 million at the free exchange rate). Her maternal grandfather, Eulogio Fernandini, had a finger in almost every financial pie in the country and was known to his contemporaries as an ardent collector-of gold coins. After his death in 1947, tax assessors laboriously counted their...
Foujita used no models for any of his new pictures. His silvery nudes belonged "to no nationality, no epoch. I have had 3,000 models and I don't need them any more." He had imparted an oriental delicacy to such details as the hair and toes, but generally slurred over the major elements that better draftsmen are apt to emphasize: the thrust of a knee or elbow, the twist of a torso or the solid bulge of a thigh. Shining out against deep black backgrounds, his nudes had more flow than form...
...elders and the parish priest were solemnly deciding who should play the 16 major roles of the 300-year-old Passion Play, scheduled to begin its first season in 16 years next May 21. As each part was filled, the town crier-a young man with shoulder-length blond hair-wrote the names on a blackboard for the people...