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...about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading depths as the Bible. The Bible was not written by God. If God wrote the Bible he would have done a better...
...Senate, baldish, flowing-whiskered M. Clémentel is of the Gauche Democratique, a group which corresponds almost exactly to M. Daladier's Radical Socialists in the Chamber. Naturally he expected their support, proceeded with confidence to round up his personal following which lies a little further to the right, finally sought the weighty aid of great Aristide Briand, a statesman supposed to be above party because of his achievements in the realm of Peace...
...Baldish, sharp-nosed and Polish was the nice gentleman, Foreign Minister August Zaleski. He was in Bucharest, last week, to keep warm negotiations which have long been simmering toward a Rumanian-Polish treaty of friendship and arbitration. From Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski of Poland he brought to King Mihai some brightly painted wooden toys; a railway train (considerably inferior to last year's); a big book of Polish fairy tales, The Story of the Dwarfs and the Little Orphans, translated into English-the language Mihai most easily reads, usually talks...
Jewelers remember him as the sallow, baldish, unhealthy looking little man who bought $2,500,000 worth of jewelry for his wife, pawned and redeemed it again and again as he traversed a career as full of ups and downs as a picket fence...
Manhattan now has an artistic Dreyfuss case. Last week there went to the chambers of Supreme Court Justice Curtis A. Peters, one Albert Dreyfuss, sculptor-49, stocky, German-looking, black mustache, baldish head, a harassed expression. He came for a private hearing to establish his sanity so that he could sculp without interference...