Word: balding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Londoners stroked their polls, musing. "It is all a matter of heredity," their countryman, one H. C. Brooke had announced. In collaboration with Dr. F. A. E. Crew of Edinburgh University, he had bred a strain of mice which, when 16 days old, became bald; when three weeks old, lost the fur off their backs; when a month old, ran naked. Some day, predicted Mouse-Breeder Brooke, at the present rate of shaving, clipping, singeing, bobbing, waving, shingling, barbers will be unnecessary to mankind...
...what age did Mouse-Breeder Brooks's mice become bald...
...strode into the Assembly at the head of the German delegation a cheer went up from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Senator Claude Swanson, and many another who sweltered in the gallery. Replying to the formal greeting of President Nintchitch, Herr Stresemann mounted the Tribune, mopped his pinkly bald head, planted his legs firmly, joined his hands somewhat nervously behind his back, launched into a sound and sensible discourse in German...
...toward the miners, was away "water-curing" at Aix-les-Bains. When the Times was brought in by many a butler last week, many a mine owner let it lie negligently for a moment beside his plate. Perhaps it might contain a new outburst against the miners by half bald and otherwise red-headed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill. There was no sentimentality about "Winnie"-a grandson of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough. A little loud, perhaps, but "Winnie" would keep the Cabinet on the coal owners' side while Premier Baldwin was away...
...truck. In front of me was at boisterous brass band which kept playing "How Dry I Am." Beside me rode my daddy, like Pompey returning to Rome in triumph. In case you do not know him, my daddy is a nice old man-rather chubby and rather bald-has name is George E. Brennan [Democratic nominee for Senator from Illinois (TIME...