Word: baldingly
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...fine thing!" said bald, blue-blooded Representative Wadsworth of New York, who would not be averse to leading his party toward the White House next year...
...Ruddy Sr. is completely bald, massive as a seal, mottled as though he had been under water for years. Actually, his underwater record is only 3 min. 19 sec. He claims that, in his lifetime of water polo, he never gave a "busy signal." He attributes his family's success to a diet prescribed by Mrs. Ruddy, no smoking or drinking by any Ruddy, the fact that the Ruddys never overdo. That N. Y. A. C. water polo teams, since the game was imported by an Englishman named Fred Wells in 1885, have been the best...
When the trap drummer of the Conte di Savoia seasickened in mid-Atlantic, big, bald, walrus-mustached Banker Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) volunteered to take his place. Resplendent with a white carnation in the lapel of his dinner jacket, Banker Warburg drummed skillfully through three stormy evenings...
When a stockholder urged the management to reply, President Roy E. Tomlinson snapped: "This is not the tribunal for discussing the matter." So far Uneeda has refused to arbitrate the dispute on the ground that the strike was a bald breach of contract. Nevertheless, the union has shunted the case to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, where it is now pending...
...bald, acquisitive William Fox was the grand panjandrum of filmland. Next year he was ousted from control of his companies by a coalition of creditors. With $21,000,000 in cold cash and a five-year pension of $500,000 annually, he was well able to finance a comeback if he could find something to come back with. He thought he had it in patents, bought abroad and transferred to his personal holding company, covering the "double print" method of recording both sound and picture on a single film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally...