Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he flew to Europe in 1927 as the first transatlantic airplane passenger, bald, erratic Charles A. Levine has been ar rested for counterfeiting, pledging stolen stock and sidewalk brawling; broken a leg; had four street accidents; lost the fortune he made in Wartime junk by speculation, his wife by divorce and his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll by marriage. To end his string of failures, Flier Levine turned on the gas jets of a Brooklyn kitchen. Forty minutes later a rescue squad informed him that his suicide had failed...
Before every national election Maine gives a pre-season showing of political styles. Last week both parties strained every resource to win the State election. Republicans expected, with the aid of Maine's normally Republican, normally conservative votes, to re-elect Senator Frederick Hale. They hoped to re-elect bald, dapper Representative Carroll Beedy of Portland, and to elect former Governor Ralph O. Brewster to a second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their hopes were far from high: Maine's third seat...
...time. Two billions in bullion, one-third of all the gold in the land, began to move 1,440 mi. to the U. S. Mint at Denver. And 1,796 mi. farther east, beneath a huge portrait of Benjamin Franklin in his big new Washington office, sat the bald-headed man who was morally, physically and financially responsible for the fabulous shipment. By law it was up to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley to get the Government's gold from mint door to mint door intact...
Last week Boss Farley heard how Upton Sinclair, in a victory no less complete, had become the Democratic nominee for Governor of California. The Postmaster General rubbed his bald pate and finally conceded: "If Sinclair is the choice of the Party, there's nothing else we can do but congratulate him. The Party has never failed to support its nominee...
...making The Night Life of the Gods. It calls for $5,000 per week if he directs, $7,500 if he also acts. Instead of rehearsing each scene under lights, Sherman rehearses the whole picture for two weeks before shooting. He has a spiky mustache, a bald dome of a head which give him the appearance of a considerate Mephistopheles. He wears linen knickerbockers and short socks. Artistic pretensions he especially despises. When Director John Stahl put up a sign "No Visitors" on his set. Director Sherman had a sign painted for his set: "See the Great Sherman At Work...