Word: baldish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faiman is a stocky, baldish, well-dressed man with a neat brown mustache and a look of respectability. He lives in an exclusive section of Dallas, drives a green Buick, has an attractive second wife. He has been supported in his pleasant position by panicky pregnant girls. Last week "Dr." Faiman was under a two-year prison sentence for selling "abortion paste" in interstate commerce...
...Angeles, police booked baldish Edward T. Calver, branch manager of the Keeley Institute (for alcoholics), on a charge of drunkenness. Released on bail, he explained what had driven him to the bottle-nine long years of trying to keep lushes away from whiskey...
Most such visitors caught on in a few days and trotted along home like good little boys. One who didn't is the hero-or victim-of this novel, mild, baldish Dr. John Jones, Professor of the Assyrio-Bdbylonic, Chaldean, Phoenician, Etruscan and Turkish languages at St. Jude's Theological Seminary...
That made it all the more successful, in the opinion of baldish Walter Reade Sr., 63, the owner, and slick-haired Walter Reade Jr., 29, the operator of Manhattan's newest million-dollar movie palace. For Cineman Reade Sr., who owns and operates 40 theaters in the New York area, expects to make money because there will be 1) no crowds and 2) no double features...
...Baldish, moustachioed Sir Adrian Boult, who heads the crack BBC Symphony Orchestra, boasts that "blood seldom flows at my rehearsals." But last week his musicians were up in arms: bad blood was up, if not flowing...