Word: redhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre of land on the side of a mountain near Abingdon [Va.]." To Actress Jinx Falkenburg, from some 50,000 admiring beauticians in convention in Manhattan, went the title, America's No. 1 Brunette. Actress Rita Hayworth (who used to be a redhead, and before that a brunette) was chosen No. 1 Blonde, and Actress Evelyn Keyes (who used to be a blonde) No. 1 Redhead...
Classes in Living. A pert redhead named Marian McGregor, shocked at the general loneliness she encountered, started the Spartan Wives last spring. She and some friends of hers invited other campus wives to get together for picnics and "homemaking" sessions. By fall the idea had spread so far that the wives had to hold a mass meeting in a college ballroom to elect officers. The college detailed a woman professor and the director of adult education extension to help...
...best brains as charmingly as he captivated capital hostesses. He called Dorothy Thompson the discoverer of "perpetual emotion," once rebuffed a girl reporter from Manhattan's PM: "Don't tell me you print just facts. Nobody knows what a fact is." Since 1942 Frank Oliver, a restless redhead from Reuters, has been Bill Lewis' legs and has filed the bulk of the Times's copy...
...corporations, and not even Nathan would claim that all of them showed a profit. But his report was enough to make them all targets of labor's new drive. C.I.O. leaders denied this, but the report was hardly out when the U.A.W.'s peppery redhead, Walter Reuther, announced a drive for a 23½?-an-hour wage rise in the automotive industry...
Farther north, the biggest and noisiest hunting show the U.S. had ever known was already well under way. There were few pheasant, practically no ruffed grouse, few duck, but the guns roared anyhow. On Chesapeake Bay, duck hunters cussed the "bluebird"weather -balmy days when the redhead and canvasback like to sit on the water, and the men in the blinds see few duck overhead. In Washington, an unseasonable freeze-up sent birds hightailing south through the state in two days. But there were plenty of white-tailed deer, plenty of ammunition, and plenty of hunters (some ten million...