Word: balders
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...owns Challenge, waved to the sudden whistle of 100 spectator boats, largest fleet that has ever followed a U. S. six-metre boat race. Beaten by nearly three minutes but grinning in honest approval of his opponent's skill, jovial little Magnus Konow, who looks like a browner, balder copy of the onetime Crown Prince of Germany, jumped out on the float, scrambled up the long steps to the clubhouse piazza. There he found the cold comfort that Seawanhaka custom provides for a defeated challenger: first drink...
...Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with me for I know she will choose whatever shade will...
...still tall and strong, balder and homelier than ever, with snapping blue eyes and a white mustache more bristly than ever, Governor Bryan frankly avows a purpose to drive out "monopolistic business." Into the discard has gone his black skull cap which made him a marked figure at the 1924 Democratic National Convention and helped win him the vice presidential nomination on the Davis ticket. Though a Democrat, his chief political support is a large bloc of independent voters who also insure the regular re-election of Republican Senator George William Norris...
...Wilson reaches his remarkable conclusion, despite its pleasantness is unconvincing, for it is substantially an assertion that once assured that it is impossible to secure anything to drink, it is a matter of little concern to the government and the drys whether people drink or not. Stated in balder terms then these unusually liberal sentiments issuing from a temperance leader are seen to be based on a substantial foundation of sophistry...
...Berger, life-insurance agent, C. G. Cook 3G Pieper, alderman, J. L. Mosle '20 Ballinger, alderman, R. P. Berie '20 Karner, alderman, J. R. Lauer '20 Lehmann, alderman, M. Cowley '19 Blechschmidt, alderman, C. A. Rome '17 Moll, physician, W. Silz '17 Hampel, messenger, W. J. Margreve '19 Frau Balder, Miss Gabriele Veit Pauline, maid at Birkenstock's, Miss Lina Berle Karoline, maid at Sauerbrei's, Miss Anna Margreve...