Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...glass darkly, the prophecy of what we will some time be. Darkly, for it is apparent to all that while we shall attain to the success of the most successful, we shall never equal the mediocrity of those who have failed to stir the world. We shall never grow bald-headed or over-weight as some graduates do, or wear nose-glasses and starched collars, or carry umbrellas...
...University by a large majority indicated over ten weeks ago that it favored some form of universal military training for the young men of the nation. That was at a time when Congress, confronted by the bald fact of danger, was contemplating action. Since that vote was taken our international situation has changed from the dangerous to the imminently perilous. We are no further prepared. To be sure, we have a few training corps, and a few lady ambulanciers on the land, and a few converted pleasure boats on the water. But the nation is not more prepared to fight...
Miss Frances Pritchard, of whom Boston bald-headers have grown very fond, is the one real celestial part of the paradise affair. She not only is young and lovely, but her dancing is of the best. "But why," wailed all connoisseurs of this sort of thing, "is she only allowed on the stage for so few precious minutes?" Admirable query! Mr. Teddy Webb becomes a fat German with success; Miss Cleo Mayfield has a well-practised, tough drawl, and Miss Vivienne Segal is nicely demure...
Without doubt all of our readers have seen the very humorous drawing to which this refers, and, consequently, are aware that the two characters are not "linked arm in arm" and that the drawing is labelled "Historic" not "Human Affinities." The bald and unqualified statement that the issue was suppressed by President Lowell is a bald and unqualified falsehood. The remainder of the item is a cleverly worded implication that the Lampoon's drawing does not conform to a very rigorous sense of decency. Incidentally, there is no mention of the broad black band that occupies a large portion...
...objected that as the class of men who win prizes usually stand in need of financial aid, this method affords the least embarrassing way of rewarding those who are the most deserving. Though this is true to a certain extent, the same result would be accomplished in a less bald way by a committee who should look into the needs of successful scholars, and in this way remove the cheapening effect of money prizes upon scholarship...