Word: balding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bald, wizened little man whose greatest fear is that he won't live long enough to complete works he has started. Sixteen years ago he completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood and power to compose the third act." Inspiration, he explains, "comes as mysteriously as hunger-and must follow the digestion of a lot of other things. One has to wait until one is called upon...
Died. Carl Thomas Anderson, 83, veteran cartoonist, who worked at it for 40-odd years and finally clicked with "Henry," an egg-bald moppet; of a heart ailment; in Madison...
...this week, when the day seemed surely at hand, the G.O.P. had embraced most of Franklin Roosevelt's innovations. And the New Dealers had either grown bald and tired or had disappeared completely, leaving their party to less feverish -and less consecrated...
...teeth, and sent in a claim for payment to himself. Last week* a butcher in Dudley, Worcestershire, asked for three pairs of eyeglasses: one for reading, one for looking at far-off things, one for chopping meat. He got them. In Cambridge, an elderly woman, bald since the age of six, asked for a wig. Ruled S. W. Davis, the pensions officer: "She will be provided with two wigs, as one occasionally has to be cleaned...
...Afrikaner Broederbond, in turn, is run by an executive of twelve who call themselves the Twelve Apostles. One of the apostles, billiard-bald Dr. Nicholaas Diederichs, Nationalist Parliament member for Randfontein, said in his maiden speech in Parliament: "The political position in South Africa is not an ordinary fight between two parties, but between two basic outlooks on life so fundamentally divided that a compromise between them is virtually unthinkable...