Word: baldingly
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...Caesar's contemporaries often used even stronger language. In I, Claudius, Author Robert Graves reproduces the mood, if not the exact language of a song Caesar's legions sang returning from Gaul: "Home we bring the bald whoremonger;/Romans, lock your wives away...
...first a concession to sartorial splendor. That stubble had to go. And he wasn't the bald-headed eagle. A little slickum, a little polish, smooth out a few of those wrinkles, he'd been letting himself get seedy lately. Look old, feel old. Now to get rid of that . . . . . . pot belly. There must be something to do about that. Some steam and a quick rubdown. Not too much; there was a beautiful day to be lived outside...
...Dolores Gray, whose presence, style and big, happy voice make the revue's less-than-distinctive music sound far better than it is. Paris-born Ballerina Colette Marchand reveals one of the Continent's sexiest pairs of legs, sheathed in provocative black silk stockings. But it is bald, big-nosed, wild-eyed Bert Lahr who carries the show, provides it with tone, personality, guts and laughter and nightly fills the big house (1,527 seats) to bulging capacity...
...York, fortune perversely eluded a benign-looking ex-schoolteacher named Charles Blevins Davis. He managed to round up enough Broadway angels to stage a couple of productions, but they were flops, and life was hard and gritty. Nevertheless, he traveled, met the famous, became well-tailored, suave and bald, and shortened his name to the more fashionable C. Blevins Davis. In 1946, at the age of 45, he married an aging heiress named Marguerite Sawyer Hill, a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon (Great Northern) James J. Hill. When she died in 1948, C. Blevins inherited...
Some of the most soaring religious poetry ever written was composed by a tiny 16th Century Spanish monk called Juan de la Cruz-John of the Cross. From his bald head to the soles of his sandals, John was a contemplative, shy, silent mystic...