Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret. In Milwaukee, when Joseph R. Cook was asked to take his cap off in a public-library reading room, he angrily ripped up newspapers and magazines, finally explained to police that he didn't want to muss his hair, was found to be nearly bald...
...merely reminded Carter of another occasion: "Once I was asked to introduce William Jennings Bryan. I spoke for quite a long time, leaving Mr. Bryan, who followed me, possibly three minutes. When it was over, I heard a fellow say: 'Bryan was fine, but who was that bald-headed old fellow that followed...
...Himawari Musume (Sunflower Maiden), about a teen-ager who has just got an office job and is spatting with her mother over unchaperoned dates; Saku-ranbo Taisho (General Cherry), a war orphan who was in hot water last week because he made fun of the school principal's bald head; and the liveliest of the lot, Eriko To Tomo Ni (Together with Eriko), starring 26-year-old Michiko...
Last week Big Bill Hutcheson, bald, ruddy, bejowled and 77, summoned reporters to his fourth-floor offices in the yellow brick headquarters in Indianapolis. He met them in his shirt sleeves, and announced that he was feeling as fit as ever. But he could feel a few twinges that told him "old age is creeping up." Therefore, he had decided to give up the presidency he had occupied since 1915. Then, in a fitting climax to his roaring, dictatorial career, he announced the founding of U.S. labor's first big-time dynasty. His successor: son Maurice Hutcheson...
...thing in Caesar and Cleopatra, the central thing for Cleopatra herself. The musing middle-aged stranger she addresses, between the paws of the Sphinx, as "Old gentleman," keeps her his doting pupil in queenship, but will not risk his heart. A Roman eagle Caesar is, but like the eagle, bald, and wearing a laurel wreath as a toupee. He is in any case beyond wearing laurel wreaths for show; he knows too well that the only true conqueror is the conqueror worm. Caesar is that type that always fascinated Shaw, the successful man of action. And Shaw molded Caesar nearer...