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While more and more Americans seek out like-minded souls on the World Wide Web - and, indeed, there are bald pride Websites such as balditude. com and powerbalding. com - Capps is striking a blow against digital America, preferring the glare bouncing off his conventioneers 'heads to virtual reality.
Book Excerpt: 'Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest To End Baldness' 2007
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“Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.
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"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.
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"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 Mark Twain 1872
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(noun) - A state of baldness; found in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
--John Farmer's Americanisms Old and New, 1889
January 17, 2018