Word: balding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tall, bald, genial President Alexander was a lumberman's son, studied forestry in the U. S. and Germany, worked in the woods in Wisconsin and Oregon, where he once walked out on strike with IWWorkers. He married a lumberman's daughter, still has big lumber and paper interests. Until last year Ben Alexander ran Masonite from Wausau, Wis., his home town. There he gave the city an airport, was rated First Citizen, bore the distinction of having installed the first home bar in Wausau. Now Ben Alexander lives in Chicago's Drake Towers with his dark, slim...
...received, a 50% interest in the business, equal representation on the board of directors. There are now 65 IGA wholesalers with a total of 110 branches. Most of them are old, established houses like Milliken, Tomlinson Co. in New England and E. R. Godfrey & Sons Co. of Milwaukee (egg-bald, bespectacled President James D. Godfrey is chairman of the IGA board). From each store the wholesaler collects $3.50 per week for service. Each wholesaler pays IGA headquarters $4.75 per month per store for merchandising advice, mats, layouts, etc. Besides its brokerage commissions IGA receives about $372,500 per year from...
Convivial George Wesley Bellows, producer of some of the greatest prize fight pictures ever painted or lithographed in the U. S., was clean-shaven, bald, dressed like a truckdriver. In his three years at Ohio State he was shortstop on the baseball team. His capacity for beer was exceeded only by that of his good crony, lusty George links. Never did a public argument arise-the shooting of Edith Cavell, lynching in the South, the hypocrisy of the Billy Sunday school of revivalists - but vivid George Bellows felt impelled to get himself and his trenchant pencil into...
...near the village of Parkston, Me., there was a sloping stretch of ground to which the Ashburns retired when they wanted to think things over. Three generations of shrewd, kindly old Maine farmers had pondered there before Charlie Ashburn, but few of them faced such problems as beset homely, bald-headed Charlie. Charlie was in love with a vivacious college girl named Marian Parks. His older married brother Morris also loved her. Marian, although she was friendly with both, loved neither. Morris wife complicated things by making shameless love to high-minded, honest Charlie who became her lover. Charlie, whose...
...Dandy of Bishop Hill, John Wallin preferred the Newgate Fringe, a half moon of whiskers about a bald face...