Word: balding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pale, flabby-fleshed, glisteningly bald Dr. Gustav Stresemann played at the Hague Conference last week an astute, unobtrusive dickering game for Germany. The quarrel over whether Great Britain should get a larger share of the Reparations "sponge cake" (TIME, Aug. 19) was the German Foreign Minister's big chance. In the bitter fiscal struggle of France and her Latin allies to resist the demands of British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden it came logically about, last week, that both antagonists found themselves willing to offer political concessions to the Reich for maintaining a benevolent neutrality...
...Invasion of Manchuria by 10,000 Soviet troops with 30 field guns" was reported in an official Chinese communique. Simultaneously at Washington the Chinese minister, bald, bland Dr. C. C. Wu, announced that the Nationalist government was rushing 60,000 troops "to protect our territory from violation by Russia." Fast as cables could flash the Soviet war office at Moscow denied invading Manchuria, denounced the Chinese communique as "a malicious invention to screen Chinese attacks...
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...South Bend, Ind., hearing that the city zoo wanted a pair of bald eagles, two South Benders went afield and obtained two large, bald birds from a farmer named MacMillan. A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird. A zoologist helped Farmer MacMillan recover his $13 by identifying the National Birds as buzzards...
...Milwaukee sent him to Congress as the first Socialist representative.* Appalled, Washington gaped at this ''political monster" who was no monster at all but a round German burgher, bald, shuffling, infinitely good-natured. Re-elected in 1918, he was refused his House seat by a vote of 309 to 1 because of his pacifist doctrines. In 1919 he was again elected, again barred. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in February, 1919, passed on him the verdict of "espionage," sentenced him, with a flourish, to 20 years' imprisonment. He never served a day of it. Higher courts reversed...