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Word: baldly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expression of the will of the people is advisable and justified. ... If the people are to pass again upon this question, let them pass upon it in such bald, naked and unequivocal terms as to make their decision intelligent and certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Keynote | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Bald Naked." Senator Barkley, a Dry speaking for a Wet candidate, recommended the submission of a resolution repealing the 18th Amendment. Like Senator Borah, he denounced the theory that constitutional Prohibition could be kept in some States and not in others. The Republican plank on this question he called "a promiscuous agglomeration of scrap-lumber," adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Keynote | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Robert Friedrich ("Strangler") Lewis is the oldest able professional wrestler in the U. S. He is almost 50, with the figure of a porpoise, a partially bald head, swollen ears and pig-eyes dulled by trachoma. Last week Strangler Lewis waddled proudly into a New York ring for a match with Richard Shikat, a limber and powerful young German who has been trying to get a return match for the title ever since Champion Jim Londos won it from him two years ago. The match between Shikat and Lewis was important because Champion Londos had been ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grunts in a Bowl | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...members are: E. C. Bald, Jr. '34, A. F. Bixby 1G., P. L. Boardman 1G., R. R. Covell '35, J. L. Helmuth '34, H. B. Hill '35, P. B. Kenyon '35, R. M. Leighton '35, G. K. Mateyo '34, G. W. Pierce 2L., and Robert Rusch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SODALITY CHOOSES NEW OFFICERS AND MEMBERS | 6/15/1932 | See Source »

...took in the homeless, fed them, clothed them, black & white. His disciples increased, his house grew, followers came on foot, in limousines, by the busload. Sayville's Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance forbidding parking for more than 30 minutes in Macon Street. Rev. Major J. Divine, the bald little Negro, provided free parking space on all the land surrounding the three big houses into which had spread his thriving cult of '"Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God in Sayville | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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