Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That talkative, bald-headed seaman," wily Ulysses, is supposed to have done battle in Sicily with Polyphemus, member of the gigantic tribe of Cyclopes, who had but one eye, in the centre of their foreheads, and were believed by the Greeks to forge iron for Vulcan. The historical originals of this tribe were probably Pelasgians, who worked in underground quarries, wearing lanterns or flares on their beads...
...Brisbane, 62, wrote: "Marvelously ugly, completely bald, physically feeble, spiritually a giant, it is pleasant to know that D'Annunzio is happy in his old age, and that with genius, as with common men, there is no fool like an old fool...
...boss was a big jackpot and I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." "Boss" Brennan occasionally takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party. At the San Francisco con vention he vexed William G. McAdoo, helped nominate James M. Cox and forced the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the ticket. People asked, "Who is this man Brennan...
...prophecy: "If the proposed change is a good thing for the party, it will be a good thing for the candidate. If it is a bad thing for the party, it will be a bad thing for the party's Presidential nominee." In Raleigh, N. C., a semi-bald, placid, likeable newspaper editor amuses himself and satisfies his readers. He is Josephus Daniels, Democrat, War-time Secretary of the Navy. Last week he became orator once again. Exasperated with hearing farm bloc blurb, he told the Annual Farmers' Convention at North Carolina State College to "awake...
...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...