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...Last Gentleman (Twentieth Century). For crotchety old Cabot Barr (George Arliss) life in his Barrville manor house is not all beer and skittles. His collection of 106 clocks, his fancy for stuffed peacocks on his lawn, annoy his son Judd (Donald Meek), a small, bald, middle-aged lowlife. The Barrs-son, daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp...
Since he flew to Europe in 1927 as the first transatlantic airplane passenger, bald, erratic Charles A. Levine has been ar rested for counterfeiting, pledging stolen stock and sidewalk brawling; broken a leg; had four street accidents; lost the fortune he made in Wartime junk by speculation, his wife by divorce and his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll by marriage. To end his string of failures, Flier Levine turned on the gas jets of a Brooklyn kitchen. Forty minutes later a rescue squad informed him that his suicide had failed...
Before every national election Maine gives a pre-season showing of political styles. Last week both parties strained every resource to win the State election. Republicans expected, with the aid of Maine's normally Republican, normally conservative votes, to re-elect Senator Frederick Hale. They hoped to re-elect bald, dapper Representative Carroll Beedy of Portland, and to elect former Governor Ralph O. Brewster to a second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their hopes were far from high: Maine's third seat...
...time. Two billions in bullion, one-third of all the gold in the land, began to move 1,440 mi. to the U. S. Mint at Denver. And 1,796 mi. farther east, beneath a huge portrait of Benjamin Franklin in his big new Washington office, sat the bald-headed man who was morally, physically and financially responsible for the fabulous shipment. By law it was up to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley to get the Government's gold from mint door to mint door intact...
Last week Boss Farley heard how Upton Sinclair, in a victory no less complete, had become the Democratic nominee for Governor of California. The Postmaster General rubbed his bald pate and finally conceded: "If Sinclair is the choice of the Party, there's nothing else we can do but congratulate him. The Party has never failed to support its nominee...