Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burlesque management has anything to say about it, the over-bushy crepe hair and elaborate "comic" make-up will no longer befriend comedians on the Columbia wheel. The Columbia solons declare that their funny men in future must depend on their own ability rather than on greasepaint and artificial bald-spots. Drastic...
Foreign notables in straightened circumstances have made such expeditions before, and Americans have sometimes resented the sight of a stranger picking up nuggets of gold in our fields. But the bald from Oberammorgau is not coming entirely to take. It will refresh the jaded appetite of the land of mechanical efficiency with an exhibition of its own handiworks in wood and clay. And in order that these may not seem out of place in our marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals...
...Only bald-headed men were allowed outdoors today in Blanding, Utah, due to the fact that the Piute Indians are on the warpath again. Apparently these far-Western towns are still in grave danger of the redskin. Men of Custer's type must be found at once...
...FRANCISCO-I. A. Bunin-Seltzer ($1.50). These are four Russian short stories worthy to be spoken of in the same breath with those of Tchekov; two of them-the title story and Gentle Breathing - are almost perfect. Bunin's plots are unimportant. He has the power to make bald facts live flamingly...
...other hand. As the hall filled several tried to take these seats--ranging from professors to those less learned but more insistent. To all with but two exceptions, as I recall it, his answer was firm and impartial, "No, guy; these seats are taken (Since the two exceptions were bald headed, they had "Sir" substituted for "guy"). After Professor Rand had got well underway, the youth arose, gazed about, saw his friends had not arrived, sighed heavily, and beckoned with boredom to two fair maids who had just come in. Now it might seem a little rough on those...