Word: baldishly
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...Plump, baldish Ralph Leo Richards, half-brother of chubby Vincent Richards, tennis professional, escaped with three cellmates from Eastview Penitentiary, N. Y. where he was serving a one-year term for assaulting a policeman...
...wondering which of his figures Herr Grosz would resemble. The new teacher who appeared at the Art Students' League last week was a mild, fine-featured little man with precise measuring gestures. His face was ruddy, slightly chubby, kindly, with serious brown eyes, an occasional nervous blush, a baldish brow. His clothes were those of any prosperous American at a baseball game. This, no monster, was George Grosz, 38, normal citizen, husband & father. He resembled none of his subjects, save for teeth slightly muskrat. He was largely unaware of the Sloan-Lie difficulties...
...Fakes, which he invited the new Fakirs to study. Last week he gave his prize (a check instead of pennies) to Beata Beach, daughter of Sculptor Chester Beach, for a parody of De Witt M. Lockman's Academy portrait, His Ancestor's Uniform. The original showed a baldish gentleman in pince nez, leaning against a colonial mantelpiece in a Revolutionary uniform. Fakir Beach showed the same man, completely nude, against the same mantel, under a portrait...
...different witness was baldish Percy Rockefeller. Shy and beady-eyed, looking to the camera much like his cousin's friend Soul Surgeon Frank Buchman (see p. 22), he was prodded unmercifully by Counsel Gray. He said he could not remember what stocks he had sold last January (12,000 shares), although he had covered them only five or six weeks ago. Mr. Gray could get no substantiation of stories that Mr. Rockefeller, sitting on bank boards, would learn what stocks would be forced on the market at certain figures, after which the bears would force prices down below...
...Short, baldish, with a grizzly mustache and a fondness for bright neckties, Storekeeper Simon calls scores of his employes by their first names, likes to go to their parties. He spends much of his time in Palm Beach, where he has established a resort shop. When away from New York he leaves his business in the hands of Sons Arthur & George, vice presidents. He was in Palm Beach last week and Son George, who looks like his father except for more hair on his head-and none on his lip, had the honor of opening the Greenwich branch store...