Word: baldes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the possible exception of that crafty cleric, bald, eagle-beaked ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel, Policeman Schober, conservative but officially aligned with no political party, is the strongest figure in present day Austria. Without even waiting for any official announcement of policy from the new Chancellor, without even learning who was to compose his new cabinet, editors of all political faiths sprang to the conclusion that with good Policeman Schober in command everything would be all right...
...element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened in some other city than Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their absence the desired amendment would easily pass...
...trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than $1 per hair for what he has left...
...Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking for the Reich to Germany's Minister for Occupied...
...Turkey-Buzzards (vultures) have nearly naked heads. The heads of "bald" eagles are covered with white feathers after they are several years old, before which they are brownish black...