Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...funeral, and almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather be caught dead than without a hat," Drury often explained...
When he was 16, his father sent him to England to learn "good manners." Young Zadkine came home with long hair and a volume of Plutarch, persuaded his father that Paris was the appropriate place for him, and sculpture the right profession. Except for a World War II sojourn in Manhattan, he has lived in Paris ever since, a tweedy, pipe-smoking little man hammering away at sculptures that were often twice his size. Over the years, his Montparnasse studio has become forested with carvings, and they have spilled over into half the museums of Europe. Recently, he was honored...
After the all clear: ¶If there is dust outside, cover mouth and nose with a handkerchief (the dust might be radioactive), nail blinds over broken windows. At the first chance, change clothes, scrub with plenty of soap, get hair and fingernails clean (they might carry radio-active particles...
Front-Office Punch. The man who made the Journal what it is today is Harry Johnston Grant, a square, muscular dynamo of a man with white hair and bloodshot blue eyes. An omnivorous reader, he is also an overpowering talker with a Walt Whitman-like flood of words (studded with four-letter ones) and a sincere belief that the successful operation of the paper is a public trust. He is purposely unknown to most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most...
...make. As the market, in characteristic perversity, rallied briskly, Telephone was bought as eagerly as it had been sold the day before. In the week's final session, the Dow-Jones industrial average hit an intraday high of 228.17, a new post-Korean high mark and only a hair below the bull market high last June. Like A.T.&T., Wall Street was still buzzing the busy signal...