Word: coiffed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rufus Coif ax Phillips, 63, secretary of the American Rolling Mills Co., brother-in-law of famed President George M. Verity of the Mills; in Middletown, Ohio...
...brown maid whose exclamatory legs and bandeaued coif have been photographed innumerable times for the press of the U. S., of Europe, was posed once more last week before a battery of cameras. She, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, had just won the women's tennis championship of France. She seemed browner than ever before. Her legs, still eloquent, were leaner. She played recklessly and, when she occasionally lost a point withheld her gesticulations. She defeated Miss Kathleen McKane of England, 6-1, 6-2; proceeded, with her partner, Mile. Vlasto, to win the women's doubles; and, with...
Most famed of all this group that dreamed so long in the Northamptonshire house is Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. She stands against a marble balustrade, a flight of steps at her feet leading to a formal park. Her dress is cream colored, her coif, built up like a Chestertonian paragraph, is starred with pearls, garnished with plumes of red and grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy...
East of Suez. Pola Negri has a new coif, and no becoming one at that. Much less inflaming than usual, she writhes her way through W. Somerset Maugham's play about a Eurasienne, who was shanghaied, in the city of that name, by a yellow gentleman with enormous talons and discomfiting eyes. Before that she had planned to marry a young Britisher (Edmund Lowe). Afterwards she married her rescuer (Rockcliffe Fellows). There are sentiment, sobs, horror, passiont close-ups-far east of Suez...