Word: haired
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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South of the Thames people from the boroughs of Lambeth and Camberwell went to the tunnel which they call The Deep, peeled oranges, played cards, darned socks, curled each other's hair beneath the ancient arches, eventually disrobing because of massed body heat. Some 18,000 were sleeping there regularly, with only local Shopkeeper Dick Levy to keep order and settle camping-site disputes. Self-appointed and popular, he asked assistance from shelterers when necessary. Only medical officer was 19-year-old Mrs. Joan Powney, soldier's wife of the neighborhood, who has a Red Cross certificate...
Finally the crew got the bomb out and loaded it on a truck. Lieut. Davies took the wheel and drove his hot burden seven miles to Hackney Marsh and blew it up. Robert Davies is a cool number. Of his hair-raising truck drive he commented: "The biggest thrill was that I had speed cops escorting me and the road was mine...
Conductor Stokowski, as mettlesome a showman as he is a musician, gave Manhattan (and, on later nights, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia) a spine-tingling program. His white hands and fuzzy platinum hair gleaming like an oriflamme, he led the youths through a spirited charge on Bach. The violins, on their feet and playing as one man, rattled off one piece, a Preludio, so brilliantly that the audience roared bravos. After the Bach came the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, melodiously and pompously hymning the Bolshevik October Revolution. By strictest Carnegie Hall standards, the cheers showed that the Youth Orchestra had passed...
William D. (for David) Bayles went to Germany in 1932. He taught English for two years at the University of Munich, then free-lanced. In a little Munich cafe he used to see a "small, nervous, threadbare man with bad teeth, greasy, dandruffy hair, a colorless wisp of a mustache, and pale blue eyes which, like his hands, were never quiet." It was Adolf Hitler...
...broken glass, bread crusts and the remains of meals. He was in a soiled brown uniform and his huge, florid face and baldish head were streaked with blood because he had cut his hand on a broken glass and then wiped the blood over his face and into his hair." There is a timely last chapter on the Reichswehr generals. Though more & more under the Nazi thumb, they are still the most independent group in the Third Reich. For by winning or losing the war, it is still the generals who will finally decide the fate of their goose-stepping...