Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world's largest, and onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...support this bald statement, its makers last week had a notable case, citing chapter and verse from Administration acts...
...grains of gold. All five creditors sue in common cause declaring that their contracts call for repayment "in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." Each insists that Congress has arbitrarily interfered with contractual rights and that the whole scheme is but a bald proposal to relieve debtors at the expense of creditors, and as such amounts to deprivation of property without due process of law. The only solid line of defense for the Government rests in the supposition that the sovereign power over money and foreign commerce must not be hamstrung by pre-existing arrangements...
...years ago in Wisconsin a hard-working cartoonist named Carl Anderson sweated over an idea for a drawing he hoped to sell the Saturday Evening Post. Slowly, painfully the idea took form as a swaybacked, pot-bellied horse and two small boys. One boy was bald as a buzzard. The other boy lifted him up until his naked pate pressed against the horse's sagging belly. Asked the second boy, "Does your head feel warmer now, Henry...
...very name somehow seemed ideal. Artist Anderson concentrated on Henry, perfected the simple lines of his domed head, big ears, full cheeks, skinny neck. Eyes, nose & mouth, indicated by circles and dots, formed an expression of sublime self-assurance, competence, unconcern. Henry, according to his maker, was not really bald; he Jiad just had all his hair shaved...