Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English being notoriously an incomprehensible race, Americans must be content with understanding that they cannot understand them. This book is as English as Huntley and Palmer's. Its jokes are English in their unobstrusive dreariness. Its pages abound with Dickensy eccentrics and Arch bald Marshallish country life, and, in addition, there is an unmistakable flavor of Kipling and Ian Hay and Conan Doyle...
...rending whole. In spite of the unbending character of his hero, Arthur Train makes an interesting indictment of political chicanery. Although the great god of coincidence may be a trifle overworked, one nevertheless gets the distinct impression that justice is a some-what sottish spirit with a bald, perspiring head and an opportunely winking...
...easy play to present, but it must be a play which gives the Repertory company infinite pleasure after the banalities of Minick. What Minick lost, however, by enunciating a familiar problem in too bald and veracious a manner, the Circle loses by parading in a false and scaffolded plot a problem which has its roots in bigotry. The first act of the latter suffers immeasurably in consequence. From start to finish of the act there is talky-talk of the most stagey, witless sort, written to unfold the background of the play...
...half-bald and bushily mustached culprit thus honored by so informal a trial, was Dr. J. B. S. Haldane, a former reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University, a noted scientist recently much in the public eye*. His experiments and prophecies concerning ectogenesis (laboratory birth) long gave the impression that he believed birth by woman would eventually be done away with. It was therefore with consternation that his friends saw him named as corespondent in an uncontested divorce suit last December. At once the "Sex Viri" of Cambridge ousted him from his readership. His trial last week was an appeal from...
...Harvard Lampoon has suspended publication for an indefinite period. This bald announcement, confirmed at a late hour last night by the trustees of the organization, came as a shocking surprise to all who did not know the state of affairs on Mt. Auburn Street...