Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
...producers had been, too stupid to see its merits, but at the Vassar College Experimental Theatre at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Translated by two Vassar seniors and their Professor Nikander Sterlsky, Fear was acted by a cast recruited from students and faculty. Ivan Ilich Borodin was Vassar's own bald-headed president. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken-an experienced amateur actor, who entertains his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day and two years ago performed as Theseus in Euripides' Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin...
...from the azure waters of Capri last week bald, cerebral British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
...want our present institutions wiped out!" Preparations for the House session began weeks ago in committee. Chairman Doughton had started his Ways & Means to work on a new revenue bill and on legislation to up liquor taxes. Last week it was reported that this North Carolinian, who has grown bald as a buzzard during his 22 years in the House, would be rewarded with a soft roost on the Tariff Commission just as soon as he finished putting the necessary tax legislation through the House...
...future services. On April 1 he will become vice chairman of Steel's Finance Committee filling the post vacated by the promotion of William J. Filbert (TIME, Dec. n). Steel permits its executives to retire at 65, pensions them off at 70. Nobody knows the exact age of bald, mysterious Mr. Filbert, master of so many columns of figures, but it is a fact of record that he got his first job with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway 52 years ago. The presumption is that he is in the 65-70 year bracket, will soon retire, that young Mr. Stettinius...