Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice the President miscalculated. Richard Nash Elliott, a bald, chunky Republican of 65 who served Indiana in Congress for 14 years and was named Assistant Comptroller General by Hoover in 1931, automatically became Acting Comptroller. At first he was accounted an amenable stooge. Of Mr. McCarl's dogged devotion to duty, he amiably remarked: "Times and conditions change...
...York City's scholarly, bald-domed Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran was asked to help in a drive against baldness. He replied: "Why not be bald? Nobody ever made a nickel out of his hair. We cannot sell it,* or use it, or rent it, or put it in a show window. . . . Blessings on thee, baldhead...
Hartford-Empire was therefore the pièce de résistance of last week's monopoly quiz and on the spot was its little known President Francis Goodwin Smith, whose mustache and bald head are in the best Peter Arno tradition. A soft-spoken New Englander of 57, President Smith is a self-made man who became general manager of Hartford-Empire's predecessor, Hartford-Fairmont Co., in 1915. He owns only a small block of stock in Hartford-Empire; most of it belongs to the Houghton family (Corning Glass Co.) and Beech-Nut Packing Co. Beech...
This year when Wallace revamped Agriculture (primarily to lessen the conspicuousness and vulnerability of AAA by splitting its functions among other divisions), he upped four trusted men to the chief jobs around him. Bald Howard R. Tolley, a thinker like his boss, was relieved of his tasks as Administrator to head the revamped Bureau of Agriculture Economics. Economist Albert G. Black, an energetic, 42-year-old idea man, was given Marketing & Regulation. Promoted to head new divisions were Soil Conserver H. H. Bennett (Physical Land Use) and Chemist Henry G. Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these...
...still unclear. This strange book is the work of a 47-year-old expatriate who was born in New York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things that are left out of books...