Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tomorrow. The play which Producer John Golden has chosen to usher in this season sets out deliberately to make its audiences weep. If spectators are compelled to blubber at After Tomorrow they must realize that, like Alice's, their tears are not real tears. They are being hoodwinked by bald and brazen theatrical bathos...
...bald, white-whiskered popular biographer who looks like a country doctor is Gamaliel Bradford (Bare Souls, Wives, As God Made Them). Last week in the New York Times literary supplement he pondered U. S. education, decided it was "chaos," recommended a "clue which . . . may afford a certain amount of help. I mean the clue of biography." Though Biographer Bradford does not offer his own trade as a solution of all teaching problems (he admits it does not afford intellectual discipline), he says it has "the immense advantage of affording a natural link between the otherwise widely scattering and mutually repellent...
...story behind his success is one which bald, smiling School Builder Betelle, eschewing the characteristic reticence of most successful architects, takes pleasure in reciting. Born to a disadvantaged family in Wilmington, Del. 52 years ago, he got his early training in a Philadelphia drafting room. In 1900 he went to Manhattan to work for famed Cass Gilbert. He saved his money, worked hard, went abroad in 1905. Five years later he formed a partnership with Ernest F. Guilbert, moved to a small office in Newark. They plugged along until 1916, when Mr. Guilbert died. Builder Betelle went...
...There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls and goldbraided Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; and big-framed, white-haired Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., looking down on his two bald-headed vice presidents Dr. Karl Arnstein, builder of 70 Zeppelins for Germany, and Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, U. S. N., retired, and his well-thatched vice president Fred M. Harpham. Front & centre Mrs. Hoover's place would be marked by the end of a red-white-&-blue ribbon leading...
Every small-town paper (not to mention metropolitan dailies) runs a column of personal items, a bald list of local names and picayune events that mean nothing to the outside reader, may mean a lot to knowing fellow-townspeople. Author DeLamater takes a typical column from the "Steepleton Weekly News," makes each item the text for a chapter about the people concerned. By the time she has finished the column she has expanded it into a novel...