Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a run-of-the-mine U. S. politician, Franklin Roosevelt is a phenomenon as overpowering and unpredictable as lightning. But bald, compact Banker Herbert Henry Lehman, who served under Franklin Roosevelt as lieutenant governor of New York from 1929 to 1933, and succeeded him in Albany when he went to the White House, has yet to be overpowered by his old friend Frank. Since Governor Lehman saw fit to attack the President's Court Plan last year, he has become an increasingly candid friend. Last week, independent Governor Lehman abruptly swept some of the Administration's political...
...successful revival was naturally a race between proprietors of other old Valentino pictures to get their products to the screen. Also on view was The Sheik (1921), which, as an example of an even cruder school of cinema production, was exhibited in a mood of frank burlesque, with a bald-headed pianist thumping out The Sheik of Araby to make the audience laugh. But not all of them thought it was funny. One woman complained of the irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful." Responsible for the revival of The Sheik in New York was President Harry...
...Annunzio as a politician, businessman, husband, father, and hero of many highly,publicized love affairs. He praises D'Annunzio's "savage modesty" and his desire not to have company in the bathroom when he was taking a bath. He even praises D'Annunzio's bald head. But in this he falls short of D'Annunzio himself, who declared that his "highly polished cranium," as a thing of beauty, could be ranked with a greyhound or the legs of Actress Ida Rubinstein. One of the worst pieces of horse opera to find a U. S. publisher...
...Minister of Education, to whip up the "spiritual mobilization" of the country, Premier Konoye appointed egg-bald, creamy-voiced General Baron Sadao Araki, fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
...dapper, wiry Russian Igor Stravinsky scandalized conservative audiences with a boisterous, cacophonous ballet, Le Sacre du Printemps, in which the time-honored conventions of melodic form often gave way to an ingenious concatenation of non-musical sounds. Four years previously a morose, bald-pated Viennese named Arnold Schönberg had issued his Five Pieces for Orchestra and Three Piano Pieces to a musical world already slightly deafened by the acrid harmonies of his previous works. Composer Schönberg's two opuses were the first examples of systematic "atonality." To Composer Schönberg the laws by which...