Word: balding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald Statesman Theunis, the official interpreter at the Cannes Conference, M. Georges J. Mathieu, wrote: "I noticed a very remarkable difference between M. Theunis' anger and M. Jaspar's. When M. Theunis was getting angry he used to show a very conspicuous danger signal: the skin on top of his head became bright red. While M. Jaspar, next to him, showed it in his face...
...almost bald, Duce. You had better buy some hair tonic." the General did not reply. Saying nothing to anyone, he had his whiskers off so hastily that sentries of the Fascist Militia of which he is Commander failed to recognize him a few days later, refused at first to let him pass his own lines...
...Legislature, about to meet in its biennial appropriations session, already felt none too friendly toward the University. At Berkeley he suppressed the troublemaking Social Problems Club, forbade student activity in the Merriam-Sinclair campaign. He was touring the State with soothing assurances of University loyalty when a bald, mild, solemn subordinate in Los Angeles set off last fortnight's fireworks...
Last week William Fox, that bald and beady-eyed onetime magnifico of cinema, sprang at his adversaries in eleven directions at once. Alleging ''great and irreparable loss, damage and injury," he entered suit in Manhattan for injunction and accounting of profits against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., M-G-M Distributing Corp., Columbia Pictures Corp., Consolidated Film Industries Inc., First Division Pictures Inc., Universal Pictures Corp., Monogram Picture Corp., Reliance Picture Corp., Talking Picture Epics Inc., Twentieth Century Pictures Inc., and Ameranglo Corp...
...late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold L. Haskell, Britain's ablest dance critic, who knew both Diaghilev and Madame Nijinsky, recorded his own ballet enthusiasms.* Dancers in Colonel Vassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe know Author Haskell as a bubbling, bald little man who trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac...