Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroader Loree, a massive oldtimer with a beard like General Grant's, was emphatic about national defense. He said: "Perhaps no nation stands so much in need of a recognition of this necessity for armed protection as does the United States, and perhaps no nation has, since the warnings of Washington, turned so resolutely away from its serious consideration Let us remember the counsel of the Yellow Knife Indian-'It will be time enough for the warrior to throw away his gun when the squaw casts away her papoose...
Edited by Charles Beard...
When captured the assassin was of uncouth appearance, ragged of shirt, scrubby of beard. But when he stepped before the microphone, last week, José de León Toral was not only clean shaven, but clad in black sack coat, double-breasted vest, and trousers of smart pin stripe. Speaking deliberately for two full hours, he explained to the caballeros and señoras of the radio audience minutely how and why he assassinated the President-Elect...
...materialism. Just how science and the machine have affected civilization; just what the possibilities are of self-destruction, "decline," as compared with perpetuity?these are questions for a modern Aristotle with "all knowledge" in his mastermind. But all knowledge having expanded beyond the scope of one mind, Editor Beard has assembled 17 minds to answer the riddle. Their guesses carry the weight of authority, for their names read like an honor roll of intelligentsia...
Brilliantly conceived by Beard, executed with talent that varies from the sound expert to the high genius, Whither Mankind is a stimulating contribution to that very civilization which it so cogently analyzes...