Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped the Arthur from his name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose to be its chief engineer. Bald and bespectacled, he is a genial, easy-going engineer, never too busy or hyperefficient to stop and talk to friends or strangers. He will supervise the eight-year Boulder job from his headquarters in Denver...
...that time nobody had considered Cornell seriously except to say that they were too heavy; that the stroke, blonde Robert McCrae Wilson Jr.. 19, suddenly recruited from the third varsity when towheaded Captain Horace D. ("Hod") Shoemaker fell ill, was too young; and that the No. 5, a bald-headed fruit-farmer, Peter J. McManus, 30. who had been inspired to go to college because he had seen so many crews row past his farm at Highland on the Hudson...
...Osservatore Romano rushed into the breach last week and attacked the Fascist Party. Cause of the quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday...
...Savannah, Ga., a bald eagle perched and rode along in the rumble seat of Judge Henry Mathews' motor car. He captured it with a blanket...
...that her Otto received proper publicity in Vienna, for he reaches his majority next November. She therefore staged the first full-dress Habsburg funeral in Vienna since the War. Pope Pius XI is supposed to favor the candidacies of Otto, which would account for the presence of beak-nosed, bald-headed former Prime Minister Seipel, a Monsignor. Quite unimportant was the presence of the dead man's father, Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg who recently published his piquant autobiography: From Archduke to Grocer (TIME...