Word: balding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conferences, some complete, some so badly burned that only a few pages could be made out. What the searchers retrieved amounted only to a tantalizing sample of what the Nazis had committed to their fire pit: the records of several thousand Hitler staff conferences. Even so, as a private, bald-faced recital by Hitler of his philosophy and strategy between December 1942 and March 1945, the sample was a document of major historical importance...
...play's characters have disappeared, leaving their crucial lines to be read by others. But ironically, the picture's weakness lies in its fidelity to Rostand's design rather than in the liberties it takes with his text. Flamboyantly theatrical, the play is given to such bald devices as the balcony scene in which Cyrano gulls Roxane into taking his voice for Christian's. Such broad strokes of old-fashioned footlight hokum seem glaringly magnified by the realistic eye of Director Michael Gordon's camera. The hard scrutiny of the lens also shows less mercy...
...Usuard, a Benedictine monk, wrote his Martyrology in the 9th Century, at the instigation of Charles the Bald. * Last such definition, in 1854: the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception (that she was conceived free of original sin). † An official papal document named for the lead seal, or bulla, which papal and royal documents carried in the early Middle Ages...
...school bands tootled along his way. Teen-agers gathered and giggled and asked for his autograph. Taft scribbled his name, although-"Autographs take longer than shaking hands," he told his aides disapprovingly. He left no corner unexplored. In a grey business suit with thin, greying hair plastered across his bald spot, he strode into school gymnasiums, eyed his audiences impersonally through spectacles, and gave fidgety small fry The Speech complete with facts & figures. He told them with punctilious grammar: "No one can tell your parents for whom they shall vote. It matters most that they vote for whom they please...
...little white church with knotty pine paneling, ruddy, bald-domed Parson Frakes, now 62, got up to preach one of his last sermons as head of the settlement school, from which he is retiring to devote more time to the Methodist Home Board of Missions...