Word: headed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented to the city in 1931 by silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski. The critics left this sign on its site: "The American sculptor made the legs too short, the body too long and the head too large. Such an artistic eyesore cannot continue to stand in the city...
...last week featured Paul Christman as the Dizzy Dean of football. His Missouri college mates strongly disapprove of the comparison. To point out that he is just a merry, modest young fellow, they tell how, after a Missouri defeat, Big Paul ambled off the field, wagging his head: "Me a football player? I should know better...
Proud was old J. P. Morgan, and prouder was his head gardener, James S. Kelly, when, at the swanky Nassau County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society fall show, 22 of the 25 Morgan entries won prizes...
...understand, always blunt, often brusque, occasionally brutal, he is completely free from affectations but bulging with quirks. He is frightened of growing old, or being considered rich, or losing his hair. He forms friendships slowly, feels he has few friends. He talks to himself, makes strange faces, nods his head -a woman who sat opposite his desk at the Times for a long time wondered why he was always graciously bowing...
...Atlantic Clipper from Lisbon came pert, mustachioed J. Frédéric Bloch-Laine to head the French purchasing mission. He is no easy mark for U. S. salesmen-he began buying war goods as a member of France's U. S. mission in World War I. As member of the Paris banking house of Lazard Fréres, he also knows how business between the two countries is done in peacetime. No sooner had word of his arrival spread than eager agents began banging on his door at the French Line offices...