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John, Baron Cadman of Silverdale is a traveled, reserved, clean-shaven Staffordshire native, 61 years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cadman Castigation | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...unimportant about a delightfully diffuse matron (Billie Burke) whose hobby is putting tramps back on their feet. When unshaven, wayfaring Author Brian Aherne wants to use her telephone, her uplifting eye lights up. First thing Wayfarer Aherne knows he has become the family's handsome, clean-shaven chauffeur; next thing he knows, the roving eye of Daughter Constance Bennett has lit up, too, and he becomes the centre of as stormy a family ruckus as ever squalled. Before its capricious hour-and-a-half is over, Merrily We Live whisks up a first-rate cast (Alan Mowbray, Clarence Kolb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Their appearance of uniformity is heightened by clean-shaven faces and weekly hair-cuts-the apparent plurality of blondes is only a result of this. Actually they represent a cross-section of our country religiously (one-fourth are Catholic), racially and financially. The total disregard that the cadets show for any such differences is an indication of their attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate on Expedition to West Point Wonders at "Granite Existence" and Loss of Perspective by Cadets | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

Thank You, Mr. Moto (Twentieth Century-Fox). Another Oriental mystery man-shaven-skulled, pop-eyed Peter Lorre-looks for seven scrolls, the key to a vast treasure in the tomb of Genghis Khan. Assassinations, a kidnapping, the torture of a prince, hara-kiri and other interruptions confuse his efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn: but if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.-I Corinthians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Anti-Halo | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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