Word: baldishly
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...Angeles, police booked baldish Edward T. Calver, branch manager of the Keeley Institute (for alcoholics), on a charge of drunkenness. Released on bail, he explained what had driven him to the bottle-nine long years of trying to keep lushes away from whiskey...
Most such visitors caught on in a few days and trotted along home like good little boys. One who didn't is the hero-or victim-of this novel, mild, baldish Dr. John Jones, Professor of the Assyrio-Bdbylonic, Chaldean, Phoenician, Etruscan and Turkish languages at St. Jude's Theological Seminary...
That made it all the more successful, in the opinion of baldish Walter Reade Sr., 63, the owner, and slick-haired Walter Reade Jr., 29, the operator of Manhattan's newest million-dollar movie palace. For Cineman Reade Sr., who owns and operates 40 theaters in the New York area, expects to make money because there will be 1) no crowds and 2) no double features...
...Baldish, moustachioed Sir Adrian Boult, who heads the crack BBC Symphony Orchestra, boasts that "blood seldom flows at my rehearsals." But last week his musicians were up in arms: bad blood was up, if not flowing...
...Baldish Paul Moss (whose licensing powers extend from pawnbrokers to meat markets and masseurs) had always kept a sharp eye, and sometimes brought down a heavy whip, on the theater. In 1934 he removed the runways ("varicose alleys") from New York's 14 burlesque houses. In 1937 he closed the houses...