Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, last week, the House Committee on Agriculture, headed by Gilbert N. Haugen, considered the Norbeck-Andresen Bill making it "unlawful for any person to kill or capture any Bald Eagle within the continental United States, Alaska, Porto Rico or Hawaii," or to meddle with such an eagle's nest. If the bill is passed it will be legal to kill an eagle only when he is caught in the act of killing lambs, fawns or foxes on fox farms. Eagles killing chickens or making off with children will be immune...
...history of the U. S., Congress concerned itself with eagles. This was on July 4, 1776, when the Continental Congress resolved that "Dr. Franklin, Mr. J. Adams and Mr. Jefferson be a committee to prepare a device for a Seal of the U. S." The figure of the bald eagle dominates that Seal...
...Somerset, Ky., last September, a bald eagle carried small George Meece 20 feet up in the air and dropped him on his head...
Commons after Lords. The House of Lords decisively rejected E. F. T. last fall. Last week it came up friendless in the Commons. Out of the House before the debate began slipped solid Stanley Bald win, leader of the Conservative Party, to which Viscount Rothermere has now strangely switched his support after furiously championing the Liberals in the last election with little or no success...
...speakers defended the service and its law-enforcing methods. But what now struck them as funny was an explanation of why Coast Guardsmen drink the liquor they seize in the service of their country. The explainer was Representative Car roll L. Beedy of Maine, a consistent dry upon whose bald head Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, the Coast Guard's commandant, had been looking down approvingly from the gallery as the Congressman praised the Admiral's service. Describing how the liquor-laden Flor del Mar had been towed into New London in a sinking condition, there...