Word: haired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson, who was virtually unknown outside her native state, was billed as a Minnesota farm wife, and photographed beside a rural telephone in kitchen apron and pulled-back hair. The moral was plain: any woman who could milk a cow could make her mark in Democratic politics. But the build-up did not quite fit the facts...
...millions of women.. It was expected to sit well with the Danes; the new Ambassador had manners, dignity, quiet but expensive clothes and, best of all, a Scandinavian name. It got India Edwards, chief of Democratic women's activities, out of Harry Truman's hair, at least temporarily. And it made Mrs. Anderson happy...
Greta Garbo, who has ducked behind floppy hats, napkins and even her own hair to keep out of newscamera lenses, was bested by vigilant photographers on a Manhattan dock as she arrived from France...
...background is another dramatic period of U.S. history: the fierce Indian uprisings that followed Custer's last stand. But despite hordes of hopping-mad Cheyennes in full war paint, there is not a first-class Injun fight in the whole film. For some unaccountable reason the hair-raising possibilities of authentic history have been submerged in the muddled and often maudlin story of an overaged cavalry officer (John Wayne) in a U.S. Army outpost. More unaccountably, the paste-pot yarn was put together by two veteran scripters: Frank Nugent and Laurence Stallings...
Some barber shops are apparently destined to be a cut or two above the average tonsorial parlor. It is difficult to compare two places of trade when the primary function of both is to trim one's hair. Maybe it is the clientele one place caters to, its general appearance, or its atmosphere, which enables it to build up a distinctive reputation. But a most unimposing barber shop which keeps in business, and very much so, for 50 years, must have some unique attraction...