Word: balding
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...quavering, crackerish voice took up the tale: "Today I live at the Mississippi State Hospital in Jackson. Doctors there say I am about 70 years old. ... I am almost bald, and what hair I have is grey. ... I am five feet seven inches tall, and weigh 145 Ibs. My doctor believes I was well educated . . . and I am sure I was once familiar with financial statements. . . . I can identify unusual plants by their botanical names. . . . Also I remember the rules of complicated card games like bridge. "Gradually I have recalled several places where I have been. ... I remember best Pensacola...
...coaches on a train from New York City to Albany last week rode five despairing, middle-aged women put aboard by a noisy, demonstrative crowd of friends. In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed. At his office in Albany, some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking...
...native Ireland tiny, bald, 38-year-old Playwright Carroll owes his thick brogue and the background for his plays. But to Scotland he owes his livelihood, and to the U. S. his fame...
...Wednesday evening a strong Brown swimming contingent succeeded in shattering a Crimson winning streak that had extended to twenty-eight meets, and the audience of mostly Brown supporters that packed the pool balcony in the Indoor Athletic Building went properly berserk with joy. Bruin Coach Leo Barry's bald pate glistened with glory as he cavorted in the pool after his team had celebrated the victory by the traditional coach-ducking rite. George Gibbons, Bob Schaper, and Matt Soltysiak, the Bruin heroes, were mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through...
...became known last week that a committee of Eastern railroad presidents, headed by big, bald Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central, was studying the possibility of cutting passenger fares. Thus an amusing cycle in the Eastern railroads' fare policy seemed soon due for completion...