Word: baldes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor", writing in the current Atlantic Monthly, has arisen to justify the younger generation. He admits that he is sufficiently decrepit to be classed with maiden aunts, dry league reformers, and the bald-headed club, and yet he does not think his generation was infinitely superior in its youth to the present crop of earth-encumberers. It is, indeed, fortunate that he did not reveal his name, for if he had, a delegation of the middle aged would have tried and executed him of heresy long before...
...this, a solitary tuft of hair was seen to rise vertically from the otherwise bald pate of Winston Churchill, British Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was amazed at Mr. Kellogg's statement. It had been understood, he said, that the U. S. delegation would sign the agreement (concerning division of the proceeds of the Experts' Plan) before them, and would thereby become active partners in the Experts' Plan. Premier Theunis of Belgium and Finance Ministers Clementel of France and De Stefani of Italy backed the views of Mr. Churchill. "How could the U. S. expect to collect...
...Such a bald attack upon the princely member of a kingly house was quickly answered. Edward S. Rothchild, President of the Chelsea Exchange Bank, Manhattan, said that Congressman La Guardia's letter was "outrageous." Another characterized the reference to overthrowing the U. S. Government as the "bombastic utterances of a political nonentity." Others made haste to state that the Grand Duke was not a pauper: he was coming with 22 trunks; the Duchess was bringing 100 Parisian gowns; (he was bringing his mother-in-law and a secretary; he had two large bank accounts in Manhattan...
Much of the illusion and of the beauty of the performance depends on the settings which have been admirably designed by G. H. Humphreys. They are simple without being bald, and they assist in giving the feeling of the time without being at all obtrusive. To accomplish this is not so easy as it sounds. The costuming is also appropriate and effective, and there is frequently great beauty of general stage effect. This is according to Dramatic Club tradition, but we have perhaps come to take it too much for granted...
...Liberals have the hardest task, for they have to fight both Conservatives and Laborites. Their best poster showed a stalwart Liberal marked "It." On one side is a dapper bald-headed Conservative with a gouty foot, labeled "Past It"; on the other side is a shabby Communist, tagged "Beyond...