Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember once that a certain candidate for President . . . had tried to make thirty thousand hear two of his opening paragraphs. A hundred feet away a man with a ministerial beard, an Adam's apple of prominence, a dyspeptic face, dressed in black, six feet four tall, with a voice which indicated a smug and irreproachable life and which in its elocutionary power could not be equaled, spoke accusingly...
Sidney Webb, a picturesque little man with a big beard, once a civil servant, was, with Bernard Shaw and Graham Wallace, one of the leading lights in the Fabian Society−organization of Socialism which has done much to develop the Socialist idea in Britain along eminently sound economic lines, and is responsible in no little part for the moderation displayed by British Socialists today. The members of this Society founded the celebrated London School of Economics, which is now one of the most important centres of economic teaching in the world...
...American Swineherd, 35,150; Breeder's Gazette, 60,084; Leghorn World, 30,662; Stock and Dairy Farmer, 40,374; Physical Culture 306,000, *There exists no Senator McFadden. †Senator Nelson (Minnesota) has been dead these 14 months (April, 1923). Senator Nelson had thick white hair, a white beard, The pseudo "Senator Nelson" in Bernarr Macfadden's picture is quite bald...
Bigger than a lion, the young liger reveals the characteristic proportions of a tiger. He wears his father's khaki coat, adorned by faint tiger-stripes. He flatters his father by wearing a beard and favors his mother by his ears. His mane, however, is "like a donkey...
...people have had no more enthusiastic or sympathetic friend than Mr. Johnson. Ambassador Johnson came to Italy after the Fiume incident. Everything American was anathema. Subversion was rife. The Italians thought him a bit gaga, but distinctly simpatico. He seemed such a nice old gentleman, with so venerable a beard. Young attaches of the diplomatic corps thought him a bit pitiful or ridiculous. Yet Mr. Johnson, as he has shown in his delightful reminiscences, was carrying out a policy prearranged with Mr. Wilson, of treating the Italians as children, lovable or naughty. The measure of his success is the extraordinary...