Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign manager was needed, reluctant as Senator Borah might be to accept assistance. Mr. Fish found onetime (1925-33) Representative Carl George Bachmann of West Virginia, dragged him back from his law practice in Wheeling. Manager Bachmann, blue-eyed, husky, bald, collects the small change which falls in a scanty shower from admirers of the aging statesman from Idaho. Biggest receipt so far has been $500 from an anonymous donor. This rivulet of cash Mr. Bachmann diverts to Borah posters, Borah buttons, rent, telegrams, petty cash...
...misty morning in 1900 on a Cleveland golf course, a stoop-shouldered man of 60, his bald head shining like a knob of burnished marble, smacked drive after drive off a tee. Seven caddies returned the balls, patted down little sand tees, scurried down the course as the man kept poling out drives like an automaton. Suddenly from another part of the fairway came a shrill cry of warning. Without hesitation the man dropped his club, scampered into a clump of nearby bushes. Few minutes later there came another cry. The man returned, resumed his work...
...Lewis goes further than their names, which they pronounce alike. Both were born in May 1914. Both have well-to-do Negro managers, a rarity for Negro boxers. Lewis' is Gus Greenlee, whose other interests include the Pittsburgh Crawfords, a Negro professional baseball team. Both are trained by bald Jack Blackburn, famed 30 years ago as a lightweight fighter and currently as a Svengali of Negro pugilists...
...Japanese Army, lugging with them a few machine guns. They dashed through the Premier's gates and with rifle butts stove in the Premier's door. Rushing in they found a Japanese of medium height with a heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head whose sleeping kimono flapped about his knees in the wintry gusts from the broken door...
...Japanese of medium height, each with heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head, who went to sleep on wooden pillows in the Premier's Official Residence, one was Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada and the other was his brother-in-law, Colonel Denzo Matsuo...