Word: pated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop William Lawrence descended from the pulpit. William Appleton Lawrence, 47, who had stood up quickly when addressed as "My son," advanced to the altar. Bishop Lawrence and his six colleagues, including President Bishop James De Wolf Perry, laid their hands upon the bald pate of the man whom the Episcopalians of Western Massachusetts had elected their Bishop (TIME...
...Canadian island opposite his summer home in Algonac, Mich., Gar Wood is Chief Kezhee-Neebe (Swift Water). Lanky, gaunt Chief Swift Water attends tribal festivities regularly, though in his initiation, which included finger pricking and the usual peace pipe, the feathers were omitted because the Gar Wood pate is never covered...
Born in Bohemia 35 years ago, Marion Anthony Zioncheck was brought to Seattle as a child, grew up to be a fish peddler. He went to the University of Washington Law School, got himself elected president of the student body, behaved so obstreperously that fellow students clipped his pate, dumped him in Lake Washington. Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges. In 1932 Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send...
...five months Referee Cragen thumbed through dictionaries, scratched his pate, learned enough about lexicology to state that "the English language is not on trial." Said he: "If the court could sit in judgment on the dictionary, every one of the 40,000 contestants could come into court, contending that his or her list was the proper winning roster of words. . . ." Last week, having boiled down the case to the real issue of whether or not the contest judges had fraudulently deleted words from Gillman's roster, Referee Cragen dismissed the suit with a two-letter word...
...Carl Anderson sweated over an idea for a drawing he hoped to sell the Saturday Evening Post. Slowly, painfully the idea took form as a swaybacked, pot-bellied horse and two small boys. One boy was bald as a buzzard. The other boy lifted him up until his naked pate pressed against the horse's sagging belly. Asked the second boy, "Does your head feel warmer now, Henry...