Word: balding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Franz Xavier Schwarz, 72, pudgy bald treasurer of the Nazi Party from its 1925 beer-hall days to the finish; in a Regensburg, Germany, internment camp. Never famous himself, faithful Partyman Schwarz had one of the best-known mailboxes in Europe: Munich #33-where Nazis sent their party dues and contributions...
Equalizer. In Huntington, W.Va., bald Councilman R. J. Wilkinson Jr. pushed a measure to forbid barbers to charge baldies more than 25? for haircuts...
...third round, people were beginning to wonder what was the matter with Joe Louis. He kept shuffling forward, a bald spot visible on the crown of his 33-year-old head, stalking his man as he always did-careful, tense, relentless. But whenever Big Joe got set, Jersey Joe danced nimbly out of range. He bobbed and weaved, dropped his guard, ambled to the left, then the right, jiggled his feet, turned southpaw at times. He backed up-but not into the ropes: he had too much ring smartness for that. Louis, always moving forward, looked like the aggressor...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "[It] isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed and bald. It has lost its teeth and hair ... it can't buy anything any more...
...only preventive [for baldness] . . . is to avoid being born to parents with a streak of baldness. It's probably something to do with the sex glands. Nobody has ever seen a bald eunuch...