Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like anything crimson," stated a rather short, jovial middle aged man with dark hair and a well-trimmed Van Dyke beard, "but your kind of Crimson isn't on the sex I prefer to see wearing it." In such a manner Will Durant, noted American philosopher, laughingly started conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last evening while in a taxi on the way to Symphony Hall to debate with Bertrand Russell...
...with a Scotch-Canadian namesake who, a good Baptist minister and college president, campaigns for the Anti-Saloon League in Nebraska. But not often, for he takes care to give "c/o Supreme Court of the U. S." as his address, in Who's Who, and wears a short beard of silver-tipped distinction. He is usually to be found on the vested-rights side of economic questions, for which Labor loves him little...
...TIME, Oct. 1, 1923), he traveled to the U. S. to plead the cause of his mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
...journal followed the article with a letter to Artist Jerdano-witsch, requesting a short biography, a picture. Novelist Smith obliged. He let his beard grow Conrad length, posed before the camera with tortured brow, eyes popping with Muscovite anguish, his esthetically agonized face pressed against gentle fingers. He explained he was born in Moscow, came to the U. S. at the age of 10 with his parents, settled in Chicago, suffered from tuberculosis, sought health in the South Sea Islands, retreated into Southern California...
Perusers of the Sunday New York Herald Tribune a fortnight ago found in its rotogravure section a portrait that showed an alert, spruce countenance, small but with a precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had often seen before. When they perused the caption, Charles Evans Hughes' prize-winning Schnauzer, with Miss Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well...