Word: baldingly
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Although once again Orson the actor takes second place behind Orson the producer-director, his portrayal of the central role is carefully delincated and Welles is equally convincing as a bald, broken old man as he is playing the young Kane just entering the publishing business. The other players, all experienced actors from Welle's Mercury company rather than the good-looking histrionic greenhorus who infest most Hollywood productions, take full advantage of the meaty supporting roles provided for them by a hard-hitting script...
...that the teaching staff still has some life in it. The scholarly, bright-eyed, wise-cracking little bachelor is a Harvard man himself, and is rather sorry to be leaving the old place. However, he has achieved a good deal in Cambridge; not only a Ph.D. and a bald spot but the friendship of hundreds of students who have known him as a scholar, teacher...
...dentist who stood ready to extract the public's worldly goods was bald Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. Mr. Morgenthau gravely spread before the House Ways & Means Committee the biggest tax bill in the world's history. He arrived on Capitol Hill with no less than eight advisers...
Thus last week, in the overcrowded obituary column of the Times, smart Londoners read with regret of the end of "Little Fortune," the genial and popular headwaiter who for years had greeted them at banquets at the Savoy. A short, bald, smiling man, he looked not unlike Benito Mussolini. But Headwaiter Picchi's hatred for Mussolini cost him his life...
...Bald, sharp-witted Film Producer Kenneth Macgowan (In Old Chicago, Tin Pan Alley), who took a defense job in Washington last month, learned with dismay that his new title was: Director of Production in the Motion Picture Division of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics under the Council of National Defense...