Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years pupils at the Crescent Heights High School in Calgary have regarded bald, square-shouldered Principal William Aberhart as a good, inspiring man. They have seen his Prophetic Bible Institute grow from milk & sandwich evenings at his home into its present $65,000 plant & structure. Seldom does Mr. Aberhart address Albertans without first having them sing Our God, Our Help in Ages Past and he always closes with a heartfelt prayer. To the sturdy citizens of the Pioneer Province (with Saskatchewan last to enter the Dominion of Canada) a final seal of goodness was set on William Aberhart last week...
...blood red globe, symbol of World Revolution, hung before the Seventh World Communist Party Congress in Moscow last week, flanked by huge posters showing Karl Marx's hairy halo, Friedrich Engels' waterfall mustache, the bald cranium and spiked beard of Lenin and Joseph Stalin's well-oiled, glistening locks. For a month 600 Reds of all nations have been non-paying guests in Moscow, candidly preparing Revolution in all countries despite the Soviet State's pledge to President Roosevelt that it "would not permit the formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group...
...years ago which ended in a riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully but the knitting bee caused no trouble even when the judges awarded one of the six prizes to a man. He was bald, tidy, dignified John Farnum Cann. His contribution - all the knitters made little chunks which were later pinned together in a large U. S. flag - was a red stripe...
...short, very stout, rotund, bald-headed man with a fine disposition," replied Witness Robinson. "You couldn't miss him if you ever saw a picture...
...Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them for gambling. He collected minerals, built beautiful homes, but remained dissatisfied, constantly groped for guidance with writers and thinkers whose intellectual stature Author Hagedorn seems...