Word: balding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month stay that he hoped to extend. "I do think I'd like to live here for the rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About those light-hearted broadcasts from Nazi Germany: they were just thoughtless mistakes. Mrs. Wodehouse explained defensively: "He just didn't realize." Wodehouse, bright enough when...
...with the bald, freckled pate twinkled as he said: "I hope you won't applaud me when I finish this announcement. It might be misunderstood." Then Claude Moore Fuess (rhymes with peas) told his faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, that he was retiring-after 40 years, 15 of them as headmaster...
...Bald Doctor," as Andover's 757 boys call him, had never wanted to be headmaster. He was the school's liveliest and most popular teacher, who enjoyed classroom work, also enjoyed his after-hours leisure, in which he wrote biographies (Choate, Webster, Coolidge). As the headmaster he still tried to call the boys by name, but often got them wrong. Said he last week: "My main regret is that I haven't been able to see as much of the individual boys as I wanted to. . . . I don't think I'm very popular...
Created by a solemn, helpless-looking Liverpudlian named Harry Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...
Your head grows bald but not your chin...