Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked as an apprentice cabinet maker and cigar roller, turned to painting as a profession when he met an Eastern artist named Chester Harding who had gone out to the frontier to paint the portrait of the aging Daniel Boone. A severe attack of measles left Bingham as bald as an egg at the age of 19. For the rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits of his frontier neighbors enabled him to travel. To study painting he went to St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, eventually Düsseldorf...
...Europe today, the. comer upon whom all wise eyes were cocked last week, is Pierre Etienne Flandin, big bald Premier of France and the youngest man in his own Cabinet...
...servants had been completely changed into a Graduate School of Business Administration. Most Harvardmen felt then that the nation's service offered too few opportunities for college-trained men, thought that they could better bend their efforts toward "making private business a profession." Under the deanship of rotund, bald, energetic Wallace Brett Donham, Harvard's Business School became in the 1920'$ big and proud and potent. Depression sobered the Business School. Depression, too, brought the New Deal and the New Deal created a host of new opportunities. Last week Harvard's President James Bryant Conant publicly...
When Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassador to the U. S., passed through Austin on a tour of German communities in Texas, Governor James V. Allred gave a dinner, invited the Sängerbund, a German singing society. To paunchy, egg-bald Dr. Luther the Sängerbund presented a ten-gallon hat. "The cowboys," put in Dry Governor Allred, "use these hats for sunshades, pillows at night, to whip unruly broncos or to drink out of." Dr. Luther: To drink? Ten gallons? Water...
Probably no living artist has painted quite so many kings, queens, tycoons and great ladies as small, bald, dynamic Philip de Laszlo. Yet for 20 years Glazier Salisbury has run him a close second on the strength of a pair of bristling eyebrows, an impressive forehead, a slick, completely artificial technique and a series of truly magnificent lavender cravats...