Word: balding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free Toupees. Jenner was outraged that U.S. dollars should go to socialist Britain. "In England," he declared, "if individuals are unfortunate enough to have lost all their hair . . . they obtain free toupees." The Republicans' ponderous Gene Millikin, whose bald dome glistens like a submerged boulder in a Colorado stream, rose in mock dismay: "What would make a man so depraved that he would want to cover an honest bald head...
...Believe in Man." Next was the Rev. Yanko Ivanov, a bald, short man who is superintendent of Bulgaria's Methodist Church. Said he: "I don't believe in man because he lies frequently ... I will give you now a full account of my criminal activities, which make me ashamed ... I will say that I am a sinner...
Hours of Joy. Composer Bloch, small, bald and grey-fringed, stood on the stage in front of Werner Janssen's* Portland Symphony Orchestra and began with a speech. Gesturing and stomping, he explained that America was written for all the people, "not just for the intelligentsia and the snobs." It was the story of America: the soil, the Indians, the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, hours of joy, hours of sorrow, the present and the future...
Stocky Pianist Solomon walked briskly to the piano, bald head gleaming under the lights, bowed with almost perfunctory politeness, and sat down. For a full two minutes he peered with patient poise around the hall until his matinee audience settled down into pin-drop silence. Then he began to play the magnificent Bach-Liszt A Minor Prelude and Fugue with the kind of unobtrusive ease and authority that lets an audience relax and forget there is a pianist onstage. In fact, Pianist Solomon even seemed to be enjoying the music himself. Everything else on his program-Scarlatti, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin...
Yale University had never had a guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...