Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What Senator was jocularly known as 'Moses'??George Franklin Edmunds* of Vermont, because he had a shiny bald head, a wavy gray beard, long nose, and because he often led his party out of the wilderness of defeat...
...interview in which the Dictator (real name Marquis de Estella) defended his regime, he was described as "robust, determined, democratic, above medium height, with a small bald patch surrounded by dark hair and with an upper lip bristling with mustachios...
Charles Nestle, originator of the famed Nestle wave, addressed the American Master Hairdressers' Association at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan. Said he: "A few more years of the bobbed hair craze and the shingled belles and women will be as bald as men. The reason men become bald is because their hair is cut so often and so short. Each hair is supported by a muscle; as the hair grows heavier, the muscle grows proportionately stronger. But when the hair is cut, the muscle is deprived of its normal exercise, loses its function, the hair falls out. The most beautiful...
Reginald is a tall, angular man with a long student face and a type of bald head which seems to be the common affliction of able bankers. He is 60 years of age and for about 40 of those years he has devoted himself entirely to higher mathematics, law, and the study of finance. In "the City" (London's Wall Street section), Mr. McKenna is Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, one of the greatest British banks. But he is more than this; he is looked upon as one of the greatest authorities on budgetary finance...
Some of these stories are not what is generally considered nice. Stories of suppressed eroticism, of girls gone wrong and that sort of thing, told with almost Biblical frankness, can hardly fall to startle one now and then with bald adherence to reality. Sometimes one is offended. But these are not the only themes. The most delightful parts of the book, from our own point of view are those concerned with horses and racing which the author appears to love so genuinely. His dedication to Dreiser shows better than anything else his appreciation of horses. "To Theodore Dreiser, in whose...