Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served in his State's House of Delegates. He was once his State's department commander. In 1917 he went through an officer's training school, was commissioned a captain, served a year with the A. E. F. in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Large (220 lb.), bald, jovial, a Mason. Elk, Shriner. Odd Fellow, he is married, has two daughters, is rated a "good fellow." He will have no qualms about the state of the Treasury while pressing the Legion's bonus fight before Congress...
...named "Diogenes" looking for a drunkard who had been reformed by the 18th Amendment. They had been despatched by the Crusaders and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Last week.after traveling 12,000 miles through 36 States they returned to Manhattan emptyhanded. Reported Paul Morris, short, bald director of the research party...
...pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection of Dr. Jonathan Dwight in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The episode of the pair of golden eagles chasing the redhead ducks (see cut} was reported to him by others. But he has seen a pair of bald eagles so chasing ducks in Connecticut. Too slow for the ducks, one eagle dives at them, drives them down to the water, then the other dives, then the first, and so on for perhaps 15 minutes until the ducks are exhausted, can be caught. In all his paintings, Rex Brasher...
...Wednesday instead of Thursday. Up swarm Harvard undergraduates to No. 15 on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall in the Yard. The room is not large; there is scuffling and grunting as places are found on furniture, windowsills and floor. Cigarets and pipes are lit. The small, bald Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory fidgets a hit, adjusts his spectacles. Some one coughs. He glares, fidgets some more, waits for silence. Then Charles Townsend Copeland begins to read aloud in a flexible voice, sympathetic with anything from Ring Lardner to Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...light, bald, spry gentleman of 56, Will Caton got down from his sulky and said he had just had ''the biggest thrill of a lifetime." Most of the record crowd of 25,000 knew enough about Will Caton's history to doubt him. Last week's was the first Hambletonian he had ever won but he had won every other important trotting race in the world, most of them several times. He was born near Cleveland, where his father owned part of the Forest City Stock Farm. Three races he won at the Chicago World...