Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foul!" Flustered and anxious to avoid a scene, the conference interpreter did not translate into French the insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote...
General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...
...Theodore Roosevelt the younger, hunting in Asia, grew a beard, as revealed in photographs brought home by his brother Kermit. Also, he wrote a 64-line religious poem, roughly approximating the Kipling manner, sent it to Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who published it in full on July 4 in his syndicated "Sportlight." Excerpts...
...feel even more uncomfortable than the silk knee-breeches he used to have to wear when, as President of the Board of Trade (1924), he waited on King George. A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist about his neck. A black cocked hat sat strangely above his shaggy, quizzical eyebrows. The usually cool and comfortable philosopher of the Labor movement who was for seven years an M. P. in the House of Commons, a member of the faculty of the University...
Ezra Cornell was the leading miller and mechanic of a hamlet called Ithaca on Lake Cayuga. He had little book-learning, much patience and a jaw which his six-inch beard could not hide. He was a Quaker. He had made a fortune (for those days) by his own industry and originality...