Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under a letter from a Catholic Sister who cancels her subscription in protest against your original printing of this doggerel. If the Presidency of the United States were being contested by a Buddhist and a Mohammedan, I should wish TIME to print no shocking, versified allusion to the sacred "Beard of the Prophet...
...Presidency of the United States were being contested by a Buddhist and a Mohammedan, TIME would observe due reverence in mentioning the "Beard of the Prophet." But if hundreds of Buddhist verses ridiculing the "Beard" should appear, in such scurrilous myriads as to violently affect the campaign, then TIME would print a very few significant specimens of such doggerel...
...Olvany's most telling argument was a quotation from famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "Tammany is our greatest social-service agency, and it holds its power because it understands sympathetically the needs and trials of the masses. Its leaders visit those who are sick and in distress. . . . Tammany asks no questions and fills out no pink and green cards. Its office hours are not from ten to four, but continuous. . . . Its virtue is its humanity...
TIME, never professionally humorous, regrets the semblance of humor which marred its factual report of what occurred when Jewish worshippers were dragged (some by the beard) from the Wailing Wall by brutal Arab police. The report chiefly concerned physical violence. It concerned only incidentally a religious custom which, on other occasions, TIME has described to the satisfaction of many a devout...
Altogether awesome and holy is the small area circumferenced by the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written...