Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southerner has always been a facile target for the jurisprudent. Habitual readers of the American Mercury will remember the story related a few years ago in Americana, a bald quotation from a small Southern newspaper, to the effect that the constabulary had barely prevented the lynching of a negro who ventured to object when a white man held him up and took his billfold. Mr. Mencken, even as Beaumarchais before him, found this ludicrous, but, like Beaumarchais, he did not neglect to point the implicit moral, i.e., that justice was a rare bird for the declassed minority...
President Roosevelt went out to Griffith Stadium to see the Washington Senators win their only game of the World Series from the New York Giants (see p. 40). Two other spectators at the game were moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S., and scowling, bald-browed Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, economic adviser to His Majesty's Government, in the U. S. to talk about settling Britain's $4,500,000,000 War Debt (TIME, Oct. 9). Sir Frederick did not meet the President that afternoon, but on his third day in Washington...
...detective. When circumstantial evidence of misconduct fails to separate the young couple, Victoria frenziedly locks Anne in a secret vault behind the funeral urns of a pair of Van Bret ancestors. Professor George Pierce Baker taught Playwright McFadden the dramatic tricks with which to make such melodrama, ludicrous in bald outline, almost credible. Audiences appear to enjoy Double Door more than anything they have seen so far this season an approval which is nevertheless faint praise...
...unorthodox will learn that a laboratory without labor is of all the creations of man the most weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable. The subject matter purports to deal with man and his habitat, but it soon develops into nothing more than a series of bald platitudes, reached by devious roads of deduction, a compendium of the laborious undeniable. The vocabulary is meretricious; the reading matter is not to be borne. All this is, of course, that outgrowth of the fact that economic geography is a science in the same sense that government is a science...
Into the President's office last week strode Mississippi's tall, bald Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, just back from a scouting tour of the South and West. For years Senator Harrison has been a conservative "hard money" Democrat. Yet now he boldly told the President that only by currency inflation could his recovery program be made a success. President Roosevelt listened, smiled, promised nothing. Declared Senator Harrison as he emerged from the White House...