Word: baldes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas Eve, 1908, Alice Warder, socially registered in Washington, was taken to wife by John Work Garrett, Baltimore scion. Last week, as she was cruising through the Adriatic with a bald-browed, black-bearded man with a limp, things happened in Washington which made her the spouse of the next U. S. Ambassador to Italy...
Last winter to Hubert R.Knickerbocker, Berlin correspondent of New York's Evening Post, appeared one Vladimir Orloff, bald, vandyke-bearded, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. Mephistophelian M. Orloff had in his possession letters elaborately typed on official Soviet notepaper purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents...
Correspondent Knickerbocker, unimpressed, went to the Berlin military police with his story. Very quickly it was proved that the Borah letters were forgeries, that bald M. Orloff himself had forged them. Imperial Orloff, whose secret traffickings enabled him to own two houses in Berlin and a country place on the Elbe, was hastily jailed to await trial; jailed with him was Michael Pavlovsky, his "errand boy." Rumors were insistent that not only the Borah letters but the more important Zinoviev letter were the work of Orloff...
Editor Wood, enthralled, got Publisher McCormick to agree. Failing the services of Pilot Eielson, Cramer suggested tall, bald Pilot Robert H. Cast, 33, whom Mr. McCormick soon commandeered from his friend John Daniel Hertz, onetime Yellow Cab tycoon...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...