Word: baldingly
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...spoke, the first distant volley shook the hall. A lank, bald-headed man in white tie and tails, who bore a slight resemblance to U.S. Senator Robert Taft, mounted the podium and stood with bowed head, facing the Moscow State Philharmonic. He seemed to be counting off the rumbles of artillery. At the 20th, he raised his baton and began the world's premiere of his newest symphony. The bald-headed conductor was Russia's great est living musician, Sergei Prokofiev...
...floor of Congress, Minnesota's egg-bald Representative Harold Knutson said: "This is definitely a labor government, and there can no longer be any doubt that the President proposes to give labor all that they ask for, and perhaps more. ... If [he] wants to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and purchase his re-election at the expense of the public, the onus for doing so must rest upon...
...Navy doctor, soon to come home, wrote warning his wife rather sadly that he had gotten bald and heavy. She wrote back gently: "You will find that three years has done quite a bit to me, too." A partially paralyzed ex-defense worker gave his six-year-old daughter a doll, his nine-year-old son a pack of cards, told them to shut their eyes because more was coming, and shot them through their heads...
...hair-clipping. The resemblance between this new series and another well-wearing job cut to the same cloth, radio's 13-year-old One Man's Family (Sun. 3:30-4 p.m., E.S.T.), was more than coincidental. Both of them are written and directed by paunchy, bald Carlton Errol Morse, 44, one of radio's masters of the so-human touch...
...conductor, a jazzman or a classicist. Last week he led the municipally owned New York City Symphony for the first time, after only one week of rehearsals. He had replaced more than half of the musicians inherited from Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Now there was only one slightly bald head in the whole orchestra. There were twelve ex-servicemen. The orchestra thumped its way through Brahms's Second Symphony, which Brahms wrote at 44. But critics liked best young Conductor Bernstein's version of Shostakovich's First Symphony-which Shostakovich wrote...