Word: wigging
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...Wigs & Tories. But even Linda's ducal grand passion conforms to the general tone of The Pursuit of Love-which plays on the surface of life so wittily and deftly that it makes far better fiction than, say, the leaden soundings of James T. Farrell. It excels in fluent, natural descriptions of English country life (that peculiar combination of rigorous and relaxed living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda...
...doll was cheap, with a flimsy dress, a wax face, a scraggly wig. But Monica, the Colonel's little daughter, loved it. The Colonel, when he saw it, ordered the doll burned or thrown away. As a rule, Mrs. O'Reilly, the cook, did what she was told, but this was such a nice, harmless little doll. "Oh, lovely, darling," she had said, giving it to Monica...
...vice chairman of the board) is Paul Kesten, who looked after CBS while Paley was overseas. But Kesten is on leave because of ill health, so the second biggest wig is now worn by Dr. Frank Stanton, 38-year-old former psychology professor, and new CBS president...
...year's show, called John Paul Jones, closed after 14 performances. Reason: the chorus boys had to return to their classes, which are still on a wartime speedup schedule. The 1946 tour was one of the shortest, but its music was some of the best in the Mask & Wig Club's 58 years...
...that most Astromental married couples managed to produce the regulation one-child family). They chirped away politely in Monolingua-the global language in which it was impossible to say anything unkind. "Is this your first trip to California?" asked one of the ladies, who looked devastating in the gold wig that covered her bald astromentality (all Astromentalists were bald...