Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...show his face to every man, woman & child in the state. Occasionally, he went in a Beechcraft plane, piloted by his second cousin, David Ingalls, the Navy's only flying ace in World War I. More often Mr. Republican went by Ingalls' Chrysler, driven at a hair-raising rate by Airman Ingalls in a Tyrolean...
...high-school bands tootled along his way. Teen-agers gathered and giggled and asked for his autograph. Taft scribbled his name, although-"Autographs take longer than shaking hands," he told his aides disapprovingly. He left no corner unexplored. In a grey business suit with thin, greying hair plastered across his bald spot, he strode into school gymnasiums, eyed his audiences impersonally through spectacles, and gave fidgety small fry The Speech complete with facts & figures. He told them with punctilious grammar: "No one can tell your parents for whom they shall vote. It matters most that they vote for whom they...
...slight Englishman with penetrating eyes and close-cropped, greying hair is hard at work this week lecturing and conducting a retreat at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. Few of Hobart's students have ever before seen anything quite like Dom Gregory Dix. For one thing, he is a monk of the Benedictine order in the Church of England.* For another, he is a scholar who began specializing in military diplomacy and became one of the world's leading experts on Christian liturgy...
...involves Burt Lancaster as the Treasury man who catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful performance of Edmund Gwenn as old 880, and the richness of McKelway's material. This material was good before the screen writers got to it, however, and they could have turned an entertaining movie...
...stock farms, spent a solid week on the killing floor at Swift & Co.'s Chicago stockyards. The resulting pictures struck Texans as not only good but mighty authentic. Looking at a Lea branding scene last week, one grizzled cattleman remarked: "You can smell the smoke from the burned hair...