Word: balding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Glimpses of the man: Sumner sitting under a blazing gas jet, swatting mosquitoes, helping arrange the term time-schedules of the college; Sumner, the inactive man, bicycling for his health, in uncharacteristic dowdy clothes, a cap pulled forward so that the bald cranium was revealed behind, pedalling at such a pace that his panting companion could not catch the scraps of conversation flung back at him; Sumner suddenly giving up smoking; asking for a picture of his physician's pretty child, looking at it constantly; pitching at one-o'-cat for his own boys, plunging through the blizzard...
...mischiefs, waiting there for their cases to be called, gaped, nudged one another, bent forward excitedly to hear charges read. Chauncey Depew, it was alleged, had made indecent advances to one Mrs. Louise Kracher, had addressed her in profane language. The malodorous crowd leered knowingly at the culprit-a bald, skinny little man with glasses...
Indecent advances from a bald, skinny little man with glasses...
...Free State)- and, so rumor has it, told Premier George, who threatened resignation, that that was the speech he would utter whatever he (the Premier) might do. Lloyd George has never denied this story, perhaps from a desire not to oppose the King; but the chief truth of this bald version of the Kings action is that His Majesty played a leading part in the Irish settlement, as is well proved oy numerous tributes from eminent...
...train from Florida. The populace, Bryan's to a moron, yowled a welcome. Going to the house he had rented, Bryan took off his coat, wandered the streets in his shirt sleeves, a panoramic smile of blessing upon his perspiring countenance, an impressive pith helmet covering the bald, pink dome of his head...