Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bald Truth...
With reference to Governor Goodwin Knight's comments on President Eisenhower ["This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald"-Jan. 30]: one is reminded of the tactless mother-in-law who, on meeting her new daughter-in-law for the first time, remarked, "Why, you're not at all pretty, are you?" The young bride replied, "No, I am not pretty, so I try to be nice. Have you ever tried that...
...Almost Bald." Not one of these speakers made an open appeal to Ike to run again. They simply let him know that, as individual men and women, they liked him-so, too, in a different way, did the professional politicians who spoke during untelevised parts of the dinners. They told the President how much his leadership had come to mean...
...personal basis California's Goodie Knight marveled at "what it is that could cause so many people to express so much devotion. This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald. He is not an orator. He is not a politician in the sense of being skillful at the calling...
...potholes filled up. Grey top hats were on sale for the first time in a Lagos department store. In a city nightclub, a hot combo was rocking to the beat of a new boogie tune: Elizabeth R, Eight to the Bar, and at a local parking lot, a small, bald man, freshly arrived from London, was busily tuning up a gleaming Rolls-Royce, to put it in prime form for the Queen's ceremonial drive. Altogether, nearly $3,000,000 was being spent for Nigeria's first visit by reigning British royalty. Oddly enough, the avidly nationalistic Nigerians...