Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teachers College's bald, nervous Clyde R. Miller, reaching Cleveland early, key-noted before the Cleveland Schoolmasters' Club: "Two percent of the people in the nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people...
Societe Anonyme André Citroën was heavy on the Paris Bourse one day last week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled authoritatively...
...Bald, studious Publisher Meyer knew General Johnson was talking about him. But what annoyed him most was the reference to the Post as a "dying newspaper." In a front page editorial Republican Meyer snapped back...
Last week in Manhattan the Oxford Group presented an even better-documented case. At a meeting at the Hotel Plaza a small, bald, 54-year-old butler named Francis ("Frank") Sweeney arose to give testimony to the audience of 1,500. His employer, Mrs. Alan M. Limburg of White Plains, N. Y., whose husband is a nephew of New York's Governor Lehman, had just told how, born a Jewess, she had had difficulty in coming to know Christ. Then Butler Sweeney said...
...dean is short and bald and fat, He's almost nude without his hat; Lookitt what his forehead did, Came right down behind...