Search Details

Word: baldingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...colleagues. And there is the equal danger that the celebrities will grow too big for their professorial britches. Dr. Baxter, 59, recognizes that he has to be periodically cut down to size by his wife and daughter, who now greet him with "Here comes that pudgy, tweedy, twinkling, pink, bald bunch of enthusiasm." One of his wife's comments may be even more pertinent: "Thank God this didn't happen to you 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Wide, Wide World | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...bitter moment arrived, Sewell Avery, who once forced Franklin Roosevelt to order him carried out of his own office rather than deal with a union, acted as though it was not so hard to take after all. As photographers swarmed into his office, Avery playfully rubbed Beck's bald head, looked pleased as Punch when the union leader said: "You've got more hair than I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Both Barrels | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Study in Underpants. Last year Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley impressed himself on the folks back home by posing for photographs with his gavel about to descend on the bald dome of New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator H. Alexander Smith; this year New Jersey's 320-Ib. Democratic Representative T. James Tumulty made a big impression by posing in his underpants (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Laugh, Clown, Laugh | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Painter Gerassi is a heavy-muscled, egg-bald man of 55 who talks with staccato forcefulness in a thick accent-English was the last of many languages he picked up. Raised in Spain, he first resolved to be a philosopher, went to Germany to study. "I wanted to find out the sense of life," he recalls. "I found out you don't find out anything but speculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SUCCESS THROUGH FAILURE | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Fighting Marshal. Beneath all the bombast the marshals had a message for the Soviet people. In its most pointed form it was delivered by egg-bald Marshal Ivan Konev, a figure of growing significance in the shifting Soviet scene. Pravda last week gave special prominence to an article by him. Konev was a Bolshevik before he was a soldier, but he is a fighting marshal who has earned his decorations the hard way and has the respect of the Russian people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Marshals at Work | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | Next