Word: hairless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exuberant exaggeration. More remarkable was the fact that all the figures, half a hundred of them, are the work of a single encausticist, industrious, 23-year-old Katherine Stuberg, of Los Angeles. Encausticist Stuberg comes by her talent naturally. For three generations her family has modeled the hairless heads of statesmen, patriots, murderers and heroes in clay, cast them in wax, fitted them with wigs, glass eyes and mustaches, painstakingly tinted them to the life. Reporters visiting Miss Stuberg's studio found the young encausticist still at work on the nose of Albert Einstein. In a special post...
...sleek and fertile as well-fed oldsters. To show people who would not believe their ears, Dr. Rowntree brought two perforated cardboard boxes to a meeting of the Philadelphia County Medical Society last week. Each box contained a litter of four-day-old rats. In one, the pink, hairless, blind, toothless, throbbing blobs were children of ordinary rats. In the other thymized youngsters of precisely the same age frisked about bright-eyed, white and toothy. If boys and girls were in a similar thymic state, they might be fully ready for parenthood at the age of eight...