Word: pated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the soles of his high-laced shoes to the top of his balding pate, Nathan Gedaliah Richman is the kind of executive that Richman workers think is tops. They like the way he sheds the coat of his $22.50 suit on hot days and goes into the cafeteria (lunch 18? to 22?) with his gold watch chain gleaming across his comfortable paunch. They like their 36-hour, five-day week, which they have had for six years. They like the immemorial company custom by which an officer of the firm stands at the front door of the plant...
...Fullers of Pate's Siding and their kin have far more in common with hard-working U. S. farmers of the West than with the bizarre, demoralized crackers of Erskine Caldwell's books. The Pate's Siding folk show about the usual run of rural superstitions: those who prepare for the end of the world during an eclipse are the same who invent the community's ghosts and picturesque fables. Their births, deaths, weddings, coon hunts, corn-huskings, box suppers, hog killings, squabbles, worries, jokes and tragedies are memorable because Author Harris writes about them sensitively...
Jean Sibelius has finished his eighth symphony (in his boulder-like head; it is not yet completely written down). From Brahms's massive skull came four symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies...
...team Major Sargent has selected to face the Yale malletmen is composed of: Bennett Forbes at number one, Ben Dillingham at number two, and Warwick Stabler or Cain Burrage at defense. This lineup is not the strongest stringers, Gay Dillingham and Pate Rumsey, are on the sick list. Major Sargent explained the seriousness of the loss when he said that the absence of one man on a three-man polo outfit is like the loss of four men to a football team...
...iron chamber. Like a tiny globular elevator in some vast, unpartitioned building, it rises through the water. From its top swirl several strands of seaweed which have twined themselves in the lifting chain with friendly tentacles, and which now hang loose like sparse hairs on the otherwise bald pate of the diving bell. A swirl of the dark current and these few strands, looking grayish in the gloom, drift away, leaving the head completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which runs up the side several feet--a beard of ooze and slime...