Word: balding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany will soon have a new Chancellor (Prime Minister). Name: Dr. Otto Braun. Party: Socialist. Present occupation: Prime Minister of Prussia. Characteristics: bald, preacher-like, thoughtful, sarcastic, stern. Famed? Yes, because in 1925 German Socialists cast 7,785,678 ballots in an unsuccessful attempt to elect him president...
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock, tonight: Overture to "H Matrimonio Segreto" Cimarosa Ballet Suite Gluck-Mottl Overture to "Matilde de Shabran" Rossini Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" Berlioz "A Night on Bald Mountain" Moussorgsky Salome's Dance, from "Salome" Strauss Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Entr'acte from "Messidor" Bruneau Polortsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin
Patriots boiled last week over a stricture passed by Captain Charles W. R. Knight, British ornithologist. Captain Knight had been making money in the U. S. with a cinema-and-lecture on eagles. Scrutinizing a U. S. coin he had observed that the bald-headed or American eagle depicted thereon was "just taking off instead of in full flight...
Dunois, Capron, Bordelais, Renaud-all with shrivelled hams, bald or bleached heads, varicose veins, and wrinkled phizzes-ran three kilometres in Paris in a race for men over 70 years old. Dunois, smallest and youngest, won. Said he: "I am old, it is true, but I am tough...
...even greater than impartial experts said, anticipating a crucial victory in California's primary on May Day, Candidate Smith inspected his campaign headquarters at the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan, and approved the selection of George R. Van Namee as his pre-convention manager. Mr. Van Namee, a slightly bald, wholly businesslike,-most amiable Cornell graduate (Class of 1901), used to be Governor Smith's secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again in 1923, Governor Smith appointed...