Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deserving indeed of a place on TIME'S list of U. S. artists is New York's Edward Hopper. Bald, shy, studious, 52, he started as a figure painter, earned his living for years as a magazine illustrator. He now devotes himself almost exclusively to landscapes, painting the same sort of villas, lighthouses, railroad yards as does Charles Burchfield, with whom he is usually coupled in the public mind, but with brighter color in a lighter, cheerier...
...museum's storehouses and preparation rooms, the skeleton was hung from the ceiling by seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...
...unpleasant occupation which doubtless achieves worthwhile results. Executives call him an efficiency expert. Embittered newshawks call him the ''wrecking crew." Both names displease him, even if they are partially accurate. He doctors ailing newspapers, trimming payrolls with the steely detachment of a surgeon. He is partly bald, fiftyish, looks something like a pelican...
...feels that Harvard has fallen into the lethargy which he claims for it, the bald statement that any bungling of management can be excused on the grounds that it offers a welcome revival of enthusiasm, is an argument based on the most false hypothesis. Following such a credo, one might quite as justifiably elect a president or head coach and later renounce the choice so that interest in the election might be revived...
...show of the later drawings of James Grover Thurber. Gallerygoers, stepping sideways like crabs, passed from frame to frame in which were exposed the backs of old letterheads and odd sheets of scratch paper on which were scrawled the amiable bloodhounds, the horrid boneless women, the bald, browbeaten little men of Artist Thurber, associate editor and one of the two most successful members" of the staff of The New Yorker...