Word: baldes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio operator and have been copying such broadcasts off and on for the past five years. It is tabloid stuff, selected with apparently no thought of the field it is to reach. A man at sea is merely bored to read the bald statement that "1 dies, 3 injured in crash at Little Rock"; yet when the service is gratis one scarcely can complain. It is my hope, therefore, that TIME and this station can cooperate in furnishing a high-class news broadcast to ships...
Unlike these two Englishmen is Zuloaga, called the modern El Greco, the modern Goya, and other foolish titles. A bald and portly Latin with a bushy moustache which grows lighter in color and smaller with the years, Zuloaga is spectacularly and entirely Spanish. His work, though loud, is sound. Like many fashionable artists, he has ingratiating traits of personality which cause his patrons to regard him as a gentle and delectable monster. When he exhibited in the U. S. four years ago, he sold $100,000 of paintings on the first day of the show and Governor Fuller outdid himself...
...dance over their bald pates...
...Under the middle chandelier stands a stocky, pale gentleman in faultless evening attire. His bald head is a palish gray; his prominent eyeballs, framed in reddish half-closed lids, have a lustreless prismatic glint; a shapeless little poodle nose surmounts a self-indulgent mouth which prepares us for his ample waistline and the folds of flesh above his stiff collar. He stands alone because the cercle round him has formed at a respectful distance. Now ... [a sycophant] advances with a deep obeisance, shakes the great man's hand . . . and then withdraws backward, wriggling his rump with fawning rapture. . . . Vivat...
Though the 289 Mayors steamed with wrath and sweated in the July heat, not a drop of perspiration stood forth upon the bald, pink cranium of Ignaz Seipel. Did they realize, he rapped sternly, that he had only just patched up the break in Austro-Italian relations which occurred when an Austrian mob stormed the Italian consulate at Innsbruck (TIME, June 4), resulting in the recall of the Italian Minister from Vienna. Were they conscious that not until last fortnight did Italian Minister Giacinto Auriti return to Vienna. Under the circumstances, and considering the relative potencies of militant Italy...