Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every few moments the guests sprang up, raised brimming glasses toward the white oriflamme of the Admiral's forked beard, and downed a deep health to the man whose famed policy of "sea-frightfulness" brought the U.S. into the War. Smiling pinkly behind his white whiskers, the Grand Admiral toped in response to each toast, declared at last to correspondents with perfect poise and pontifical gravity: "Despite the stark materialism of the present day, there still remains in Germany the germ of something that will get us out of the slough...
Noah stroked his patriarchal beard thoughtfully: "Woodrow, if you were to live on earth again and there was another big flood what five democrats would you take into...
...sometimes said that, what with all the beard, gestures, famed lines and ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...
...Hawtrey, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Whitehall, London, who is now delivering the Lowell Institute lectures in Boston, will speak on the British Treasury. On March 28, there will be a talk on "Political Theory and Political Practice" by Ernest Barker, professor at Cambridge University; and Charles Beard will lecture on "Hair Trigger Governments in Eastern Europe" on April...
Announcement was also made of the appointment of J. K. Beard '30, former assistant-manager as manger, succeeding Lynwood Bryant...