Word: baldish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico which Robinson refused. Tall, thin, baldish, spectacled, with a mustache partly concealing his hypersensitive mouth, Poet Robinson never talks about his own poetry, never criticizes other people's, "wouldn't read in public for a million dollars." He loves to read detective stories, does not know whether he is a great poet...
...ceased running; the ticket windows were closed in Ausable Forks. Rogers, Arnold, Harkness, Peru, Salmon River, Cliff Haven, all the way to Plattsburg. And that might have been the end of passenger trains in the Ausable valley had not there soon returned from a trip to Greenland small, baldish Artist Rockwell Kent. When Artist Kent found there was no train to his home at the end of the line he was furious. Never afraid of a fight or of publicity, he determined to battle bushy-bearded old Railroader Loree and his whole D&H system. This he did with...
...next to Baron von Richthofen, the highest German ace in the War. He brought down 62 Allied planes, earned the nickname "Wasp" for his habit of attacking one plane in a squadron, escaping before the others could reach him. Now called "Flea" for his energetic hopping about Europe, baldish. blue-eyed Herr Udet resumed his waspish characteristics on the first day of the National Air Races at Cleveland last week...
...Baldish, button-chinned Arthur Brisbane leads a quiet life consisting mostly of reading, writing and real estate. But lately he had an experience which moved him deeply. In the pantry of his house he came upon a mouse caught in a trap. Next day he made eight paragraphs out of the incident, some of the best he ever wrote, for his Hearst colyum. Arthur Brisbane's mouse story...
...this kind of humor. Wodehouse fans regard his lyrics for the Oh!-musicomedies (Oh, Boy, Oh, Lady, Lady! Oh, My Dear!) as best of their kind since the late Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's. Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last spring visited the U. S., went to Holly-wood on a new departure: to write for the cinema. With him went his daughter Lenora ("Snorks") who some months prior had tactfully smuggled out from a party two newly-engaged guests...