Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newark, N. J., a little man named Gustave Zobel, 70, stood in an artificial beard and a preposterous red coat, on a street corner, ringing a small bell. By performing this simple act for a certain number of hours every day he earned enough money for food and bed. Why it should give joy to anyone to see him standing in the cold wind tinkling a dinner clapper was more than Mr. Zobel could determine, but since The Volunteers of America were ready to pay for such mummery, it was not his part to find fault. He attracted a good...
...most fortunate political exile in history. Word comes that he is to receive seven and a half millions of dollars from the German republic in addition to one of the former imperial castles. He has already lived seven years at Doorn not without luxury, amusing himself by growing a beard, and the general public by sawing wood for exercise. The fates who pursue fallen great men to the end seem to have lost their grip. This latest development makes him, by any economic standards, comfortably well off. There are not lacking hints that he will occupy the newly acquired castle...
...colorful personalities abounded in the Reichstag as concluding arguments for and against the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. Klara Zetkin, 68-year-old and rejuvenated* "Mother of German Communism," arrived from Moscow for the occasion. On the Nationalist bench the aged Admiral von Tirpitz stroked his pendulous forked beard...
...indulged at pleasure in conduct as tempestuously indecorous as the antics of a bad boy of six just deprived of a new toy. Only a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30) Fascist deputies, shrieking like wild Indians, dragged a Communist, Signor Maffi, from the Chamber by the hair of his beard. To that arch-stickler for authority, Premier Benito Mussolini, such doings have long seemed intolerable. Last week the cables carried news of a "reform" so ingenious that its high-handedness was passed over in a gale of appreciative laughter...
...expected that they will receive the immediate approval of undergraduates, but a program such as you have had the courage to outline, will start those most vitally concerned in thinking along more healthy lines. M. L. Beard, Yale '07, Flushing...