Word: balding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago on a foul, is recognized by the International Boxing Union, but the New York State Athletic Commission, and the National Boxing Association recognize Tacoma's Freddy Steele. This dilemma Promoter Jacobs resolved to his satisfaction. He imported Champion Thil, bullnecked, bulging-shouldered athletic oldster of 33, bald on his head but well furred on chest and back. By matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first eight rounds...
Down the corridor from Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley's office in Washington's new Post Office Department Building, a bald gentleman who loves flute playing and the frozen North, fortnight ago finished two murals in the smooth, decorative style for which he is famed. One showed the first airmail delivery among Alaskan Eskimos, the other the same event in Puerto Rico. Neither attracted much attention until last week hale, old, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson opportunely happened by and disclosed that one of Rockwell Kent's murals contained the nearest thing to a cryptogram now on view...
Early in March, Smigly-Rydz had his political tool, bald-headed Colonel Adam Koc (pronounced kotz) merge the Pilsudski Legionnaires with a few scattered middleclass, youth, workers' groups into a nucleus with the sonorous title "Camp of National Unity." Koc, realizing that "national unity" was an empty formula without support of two large groups-the National Democrats (made up of conservative nationalists) and the peasants- suggested to his political boss that concessions be made to induce one or both groups to join the united front. Price for peasant support was the return of Witos...
Though Bramah characters are, almost invariably, excruciatingly polite no matter what their feelings, they occasionally break into such plain-&-fancy cussing as "Thou concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...
...Carnegie who was bald and Professor Wieland who (at 72) is not once played a joke of mistaken identity on the Carnegie barber who for weeks thereafter boasted that his massages and lotions had made hair grow again on the Carnegie pate...