Word: balding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resign rather than introduce it, and apparently expected the conference to express confidence in his famed "Wizardry," now wearing rather thin. The upshot of the matter was that M. Herriot, after imploring M. Caillaux tearfully to throw up his lot with the capital levy, negotiated a compromise with the bald necromancer...
...taken from any of the tales in the Armenian's volume of short stories of the same title. As the cinema buys titles and pins them on new plots, so Mr. Arlen borrowed his own title for box-office purposes. His chief female is married to a bald and belligerent publisher. She desires a divorce. Unfortunately the publisher holds her father's note for 10,000 pounds and is rather surly about it. Father discovers that the young man she intends marrying (he has been a general in the War) is the son of the family butler...
Departing from la Gare St.-Lazare for le Havre, M. Caillaux's glistening bald head bent again and again over the hands of fair admirers...
...Years later, at a great banquet, a bald-headed toastmaster referred to this personal feature. Replying to the introduction, Dr. Fosdick pleaded that hair that was knitted was better than hair that...
...visitor was a little late, so the Chancellor had had time to glance at his mail before the door of the reception room opened and an official person announced: M. Joseph Caillaux and M. de Fleurian. In walked a strange creature, a bald-headed man with a trimmed mustache, the ends of which it seemed he ought to twirl. He was smiling and his luminous eyes gave no hint of the fact that he was the husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations...