Word: baldingly
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...Japanese, each of medium height, each with a heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and a nearly bald head, put on their sleeping kimonos in the official residence of the Premier of Japan one dark and snowy night last week, laid their heads upon pillows of hard wood and went to sleep...
...Japanese Army, lugging with them a few machine guns. They dashed through the Premier's gates and with rifle butts stove in the Premier's door. Rushing in they found a Japanese of medium height with a heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head whose sleeping kimono flapped about his knees in the wintry gusts from the broken door...
Hormones of the endocrine glands control the growth of hair. The adrenals stimulate growth. Precisely what hormone causes baldness is unknown. But in man the male sex hormone is definitely the ringleader. Wiry, energetic men are apt to be shaggy. Dumpy, cunning men are apt to be bald. Food or drugs may restore hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages...
...National Beauty Congress in Seattle last week one Norman Hillier of Manhattan blatantly advised women who are getting bald to stand on their heads. Said he: "Standing on the head brings blood to the scalp...
...better way to overcome baldness was advanced last week from a more authentic source when Dr. André Alexis Cueto of Cincinnati offered the medical profession a machine to grow hair on heads where hair follicles are not altogether dead. The machine consists of a hood which fits over the scalp. By means of an air pump Dr. Cueto creates an alternate vacuum and pressure upon the scalp. This exercises the capillaries of the scalp, brings revivifying blood to the follicles. On 150 heads which were as bald as the sole of his foot Dr. Cueto last week asserted...