Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bald-headed Raymond Poincare's bristling white moustache and beard parted in a great smile last week as he moved about his country home Le Clos at Sampigny in the Department of the Meuse. For a long while he had been ill, but this, this news from Paris, was enough to make any man well! He had achieved the ambition of his lifetime, which was not to be called M. le President de Republique (as he had been), nor M. le President de Conseil (he had been that, also), but M. le Boutonnier des Avocats de France...
...plain and not particularly stirring case-history of a girl who misbehaves, reforms, reverts to misbehavior, then to reformation. Much of the action takes place in a small-town hotel where traveling salesmen are shown engaged in chores and recreation. Particularly partial to the latter is an aged, bald-headed casket vendor (Guy Kibbee). He chuckles quietly when a lady drinks herself unconscious, employs the absurd severity of inebriation in telling the heroine that there is nothing worth crying about...
...Canadian Minister is here, Mr. President," he announced. A last pat to his necktie and President Hoover descended the stairs, entered the Blue Room, took a good solid stand near its centre. Usher Hoover threw open the door from the Green Room. In marched square-jawed half-bald William Duncan Herridge, hearty brother-in-law of Canada's Prime Minister Bennett, resplendent in blue jacket lavishly embroidered with blue, gold and white braid. Escorting him was that elegantly correct Harvardman, Richard Southgate, Assistant Secretary of State, who introduced the President and the Minister. All three bowed simulta- neously...
...little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...
While most bridge experts regard each other with ill-concealed contempt, the bridge expert whom others resent the most is Ely Culbertson. A pale young man with rings under his eyes, a slightly bald head, he was educated at the Sorbonne, married a bridge teacher after admiring the way she played a hard hand, now, with her aid, makes $40,000 a year as teacher, author, and editor of the Bridge World. Eight months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point...