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...proceedings opened, as usual, with a prayer, followed by the singing of The Star Spangled Banner. Then Senator Wadsworth of New York, tall, bald, businesslike, rose out of the crowd and was recognized. On behalf of the New York delegation he presented a resolution to send the good wishes of the Convention to Chauncey M. Depew, now turned 90. Mr. Depew was absent for the first time since 1888. Illness had prevented his coming, although he was a delegate this year as always. The hall roared its approval...
There was Wadsworth of New York, bald and businesslike, tall and efficient, getting the bills of the Military Affairs Committee through in proper order. There was the venerable Warren of Wyoming, father-in-law of General Pershing, quietly, politely, seeing to the Appropriation Bills. Back of Warren sat Borah, silent mostly, but now and then rising to express in even tones few well-directed arguments. Further to the side, but coming forward when he spoke, was Brookhart, the singularly soft-voiced insurgent from Iowa, striving in unequal battle with the Heflins and the Caraways, badgering the so-called farm bloc...
...What Senator was jocularly known as 'Moses'??George Franklin Edmunds* of Vermont, because he had a shiny bald head, a wavy gray beard, long nose, and because he often led his party out of the wilderness of defeat...
...interview in which the Dictator (real name Marquis de Estella) defended his regime, he was described as "robust, determined, democratic, above medium height, with a small bald patch surrounded by dark hair and with an upper lip bristling with mustachios...
Charles Nestle, originator of the famed Nestle wave, addressed the American Master Hairdressers' Association at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan. Said he: "A few more years of the bobbed hair craze and the shingled belles and women will be as bald as men. The reason men become bald is because their hair is cut so often and so short. Each hair is supported by a muscle; as the hair grows heavier, the muscle grows proportionately stronger. But when the hair is cut, the muscle is deprived of its normal exercise, loses its function, the hair falls out. The most beautiful...