Word: pated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seated at the committee table beneath a brilliantly lighted chandelier which blazed down upon his white-fringed pate, Banker Morgan fiddled with a heavy gold watch chain, beamed upon the committee as the show began. At the opening he was permitted to read a prepared statement. For about 15 minutes he read rapidly a definition and defense of private banking. A ring on his finger glinted gold. Only direct allusion to his own company was the fact that he has always been "averse to his partners' holding directorships in other banking institutions but he consents because "the only...
...alpaca coat and soiled straw hat. On & off for 25 years they were part of his uniform as a newspaper editor. The coat was comfortable. Tho hat, worn winter & summer (with occasional changes for a battered felt), kept pressroom grime from the editor's bald pate. Now, after four years of blue serge and spotless linen as a Chamber of Commerce executive, he would need his old accoutrements again. He had just been hired as editor of the Cleveland News...
...announced. The players get $15 a concert or $300 for their winter's work. Conductor Sandor Har-mati. who used to be with the Omaha Symphony, chooses and trains the men. (He claims that many of the players lost their jobs because they had lost their hair. The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman, now stands behind the kettledrums in Toscanini's orchestra.) Each concert has a different guest-conductor. Some of this season's guests: Gershwin. Reiner, Rodzinski, Stokowski. Stock, Harty...
...France should not pay," said Vice President Henry Pate of the Chamber, "Cancellation is now inevitable...
...Seven delegates from the Workers Economic Conference of Unemployed called on Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, were warned that if they started trouble he would "smash them." A few minutes later 400 more gathered in Customs House Square, a quarter-mile away, were charged by police, dispersed with much pate-thwacking...