Word: balding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mynheer Zimmermann. Bald, suave, aristocratic, just, fluent master of five languages, for 15 years able Burgomaster of Rotterdam Dr. Zimmermann spoke with not unseemly pride of his achievements to newsgatherers last week: "I came to a country in financial chaos. The task which I undertook was an entirely new one, without precedent in history. . . . It was not an easy task...
...arrival, one Vivian Burnett, son of Authoress Frances Hodgson Burnett, who with fond motherliness had idealized him in her novel, was the original model for the lacy-collared, golden-curled Lord Fauntleroy, who rankled little boys of another generation. His metamorphosis gave the reporters opportunity to contrast his bald pate to the departed curls; his tall height to the coquettish figure of the book. Vivian himself whimpered, "No matter where I go or what I do, there is always the reference to the fact that I was the germ of the Fauntlerpy story. ... It wasn't I-" his voice...
...admiral's hat reposed, of course, upon the semi-bald Premier Mussolini. A brilliant ministerial uniform encased his purposeful figure. A broad green cordon held the blazing order of SS Maurizio e Lazzaro suspended upon his chest...
...Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., the Moderates chose a man possessed of three extraordinarily varied qualifications: a compelling, genial personality; an indorsement (last year) from the late Fundamentalist William J. Bryan; and a high administrative record in a big position. He is Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator, Rev. Dr. Roy E. Vale of Oak Park, I11., countered...
Custom, always moth-eaten and unimaginative, decrees that, in the phraseology of Olympus, there shall be a recess from April 19 to April 25 inclusive. This statement as included in sundry calendars of University affairs appears uncommonly bald and non-committal; but like the succinct phrases of the Parieal Regulations and communications from the dean's office, it covers an amount of ground in exact inverse proportion to the number of words involved...