Word: baldingly
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...wanted to look very dreary. I tried a mask, then a cap, but that made me look unreal. It was summertime, so I shaved my head. The ballet girls said my make-up looked wonderful, then touched my head and shrieked." His next role was that of a bald Chinese. He has kept his head shaved ever since; when his dances require it, he wears masks or wigs which he designs himself. During the war, Kreutzberg danced a few recitals in his native Austria, but mainly, he says, tried to keep out of sight: "I just appeared, then disappeared...
...bald pate glistening in the hot glare of the klieg lights, New Jersey's ruddy Representative J. (for John) Parnell Thomas squinted through the clutter of newsreel cameras and microphones. Beyond the press tables, 391 spectators filled the big, gloomy caucus room to capacity. Outside, hundreds more strained against a cordon of Capitol Hill policemen...
World War II found Wilhelm boarding with an elderly schoolteacher in the drabbened diplomatic district. He was now bald, with an impressive white mustache and a touch of TB. He managed to dress neatly, and some suspected that he was a black-marketeer. One evening last summer, he was seen dining in style at Vienna's gay, expensive black-market Restaurant Charly. He had just been given a job as manager of a Viennese chemical concern. Then he disappeared...
...dance routine at home, missed his footing, fell, broke his right ankle, had to bow out of Hollywood's Easter Parade. To help a pal, Fred Astaire, who very loudly removed his dancing shoes last year, happily bounded out of retirement into Kelly's role. Said bald Hoofer Fred about retirement: "I'll always talk about it, but I'll probably never...
Yale Professor (of geography) Ellsworth Huntington was short (5 ft. 2 in.), with an exceptionally large, bald head. He was so deaf that he could study unconcerned while the University band umpahed on the same floor of Hendrie Hall and the Glee Club bellowed "Bulldog" directly below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best...