Word: pates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Troy, N. Y., a WPA foreman saw a motorist drive smack into a road construction project. The foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-haired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big shot...
...Hardy family collection were put up for auction, including two bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...
...Morgan hammered both his former colleagues when he came to the Berry Marble Case. In the Senate Chamber nowadays, Major George Leonard Berry sits very quietly, a bit dejectedly, his thinning hair plastered sidewise over his pate like an oldtime bartender's. Now junior Senator from Tennessee, as well as President of the International Pressmen's Union, he was Coordinator of Industrial Co-operation in the New Deal when, in 1935, he suddenly hove into TVA's picture as a claimant for $1,600,000 for certain marble deposits in lands which TVA had flooded. Arthur Morgan...
...robbery charges (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante), played in his first public golf match, for a child welfare charity. Came 12,000 oglers who overran tees, fairways, greens, bags, players, so confounded Golfer Moore-Montague that on the sixth hole his approach shot landed on a spectator's pate. The foursome-including Babes Ruth and Didrikson-gave up at the 9th, with Montague 2 down to Ruth...
...Carnegie who was bald and Professor Wieland who (at 72) is not once played a joke of mistaken identity on the Carnegie barber who for weeks thereafter boasted that his massages and lotions had made hair grow again on the Carnegie pate...