Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Developer of liquid fuel is Robert Hutchings Goddard, rangy, bald, 53, foremost U. S. rocketeer. Born in Worcester, Mass., where he became professor of physics at Clark University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
...Cohan is Calvin Miller, a rosy, chubby, bald-headed business man, retired in affluence. He loses his middleaged widow love by being too jolly a drunk and revealing the way he befriended an infant in the south of France, a female infant eighteen years of ago. This infant rapidly strides to the fore, and throws herself repeatedly about Calvin's wrinkled neck, in the most gratuitous mannor conceivable. She is alone for a while, but, seen it develops that she has a most insolent pup of a jilted flance; a hatchet-faced companion; a stern, outraged mother whose dignity...
...Chaloner Durfee Borden and other Orientalists. No passer-by would ever know that it was an art shop because Tom Clarke never had a show window, never published an advertisement, never hung out a name plate. His business was conducted entirely through privately circulated catalogs. About six feet tall, bald and pink-cheeked, Tom Clarke was a man of bound less energy, though a childhood attack of diphtheria left him with a lame foot which he dragged all his life. He was one of the founders of the swank Brook Club, also served as Shepherd of the plebeian Lambs...
...remainder of the Convention's 21 proteges: Abyssinian ibex. Northern hartebeest, wild ass, mountain zebra, whale-headed stork, bald-headed ibis, white-breasted guinea fowl and all elephants with tusks no heavier than five kilograms...
...There are about 10,000 different mailing lists, about 50,000 customers. In 1929 Boyd's listed 620,000 persons rated at $50,000 or more. Last week there were 495,000 such persons on Boyd's lists. Boyd's draws the line at lists of bald-headed persons, of persons suffering from various ailments...