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Word: haired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Yugoslav, a Greek, a Hungarian, an Englishwoman, two Swedes, several Americans - and one Italian - sang an Italian opera in Manhattan one night last week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They Opened the Opera | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...interests of bigger and better drama Will Robinson '43 had to have most of his hair shaved off so he would look his part, and, for the same reason, Richard Wiechman '43 has been letting his hair grow for weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Too Much Johnson" Has Dress Rehearsal | 12/11/1940 | See Source »

Senator-Bishop Bunker, 5 ft. 10 in., stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T^E CONGRESS: Saints in the Senate | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Eager vendors on the show have offered Bartlett sets of false teeth, even sold heads of hair for $45. Shearing of the hair-seller was done by a lady barber on a holiday who got $5 for her efforts. One young man brashly agreed to take $2 for every pint of milk he could wring from a cow named Lucky that Bartlett brought to the studio. At show's end, he had made just $2. Other You Sell Me chores are blowing up large balloons till they break, trying to kick oneself in the pants. To protect his show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Lunatic Fringe | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Lady with Red Hair (Warner Bros.) is the late Mrs. Leslie Carter, darling of U. S. theatre audiences during the gargoyled era at the turn of the Century. Revived for screen biography by yellow-haired Miriam Hopkins, she appears for cinemaudiences as a talentless, whining, ungrateful Trilby to mop-headed, cleric-collared Producer David Belasco's (Claude Rains) Svengali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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