Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than her own wan, suffering-drawn features. She saw blue eyes clear and gentle and compassionate. About those eyes she saw tiny wrinkles and knew for certain that the doctor could laugh, would gladly romp with her when she was well; and the tight feeling of fear about her beard! How nicely it ran down longer afraid. How "she would like to run her fingers through his silky beard. Plow nicely it ran down from his white hair past his big ears and around his chin! He was like a cleaned-up Santa Claus. And his big mustache was hanging...
Shaves. All but 5.66% of the men shaved themselves. Some safety razors women bought. Most people preferred shaving cream, used 6 tubes yearly. Yet 44% used shaving soap in bars or sticks; 2% shaving powders; 3% the recent beard softeners that require no water or brush...
...Cabinet: 1) Seward, played by a self-important young man of 25, although supposed to be 60; 2) Stanton, equipped with a beard at least two feet long and portrayed with a stock "old man's shuffle" suitable to street mendicants; 3) "Hook" (Drinkwater's fictitious cabinet member), played as the chief character; browbeating the diletant President, transfixing him with the reproving stare of a Victorian "stage father...
...plot, Dr. Gentian nurses a nice insanity to be King of the Floridas, while the passion of his daughter is to be a queen, preferably piratical, with the misbegotten brute who appeals to her inherited taste for coarse-grained erotics. When the hero, young Andrew Beard of New York, arrives on business for his rich father, he is snaffled between plan and counterplan of father and daughter, escaping not without scars on heart and body. In the distances are heard the splashing of tea-chests in Boston harbor, the rattle of musketry at Lexington...
...Royal Highness, the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, aunt of King Alfonso, has recently observed publicly?that, with the drooping of his whiskers into a beard, Wilhelm of Doorn now "appears at first glance to be none other than the late King Edward...