Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illinois' No. 1 Democrat, forceful Governor Henry Horner, has been four months sunning his bald head and nursing his ailing heart in Miami, where his entourage last week denied persistent reports that his health might prevent his return to duty. Henry Horner is Illinois' No. 1 Democrat by virtue of the drubbing he gave his erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances...
These are a few of the very many very personal opinions of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, extraordinary British biologist, prophet and philosopher. His scientific specialty is the application of mathematics to biology, a field in which he has won some renown. A bald, burly, tweedy, shaggy man, he admits he is dogmatic. His reputation for epigrammatic discourse is such that on his travels reporters swarm around him, work him for quotable gems...
...faith that holds the rest of it together. To restore confidence in a name that for half a century has stood for the exploitation of human gullibility to gratify one man's caprice is a job to make anyone's hair fall out. Judge Shearn was bald when he took...
...collects Napoleonana, has an ornate office almost as big as Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street," and one Federal indictment for fraud and conspiracy...
...meeting in Manhattan of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, big, bald Mr. Hardinge last week publicly described his invention for the first time. Other metallurgical miracles described at the meeting...