Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...iron-grey hair was brushed straight up from his broad, handsome forehead, and his iron-grey beard came to a round point beneath a chin well formed and determined...
With his long beard a-bristle and his luminous eyes snapping, Premier Pashitch vowed that he will not convene the Narodna Skupstina until May 6, when it is due to assemble in normal course. He rapped out a string of oaths at a cabinet meeting and demanded that M. Raditch retract his charges. With an elaborate sneer, the Minister of Education tendered his resignation, together with those of his four Croatian fellow Ministers. King Alexander, seriously alarmed, was reported in late despatches to be attempting to reconcile Raditch and Pashitch; to restore outward harmony between the Croats who wish...
...Walter J. Travis a beard?" Golf enthusiasts to whom this question was put suddenly last week stuttered. If they had just laid down a copy of Golf Illustrated they cried: "Y-y-yess! And his picture looks like G. B. Shaw." When Mr. Travis was younger he was U. S. National Amateur champion three times (1900, 1901, 1903), wore no beard. In 1904 he won the British Amateur...
...Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the "maiden speech" of Grand Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz...
...year-old "Father of the U-Boats" is ordinarily content to recline at ease on one of the extreme Fascist benches in the Reichstag. There he is sometimes observed to nod. More often he strokes and fondles his forked beard, remembering, no doubt, how he was forced to resign as Grand Admiral by the Kaiser (1916) and obliged to take refuge in Switzerland after the War because of German popular resentment* against him as the instigator of Germany's eventually disastrous U-boat policy. Such memories, perhaps, have taught him to keep silent. But last week he rose...