Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wright moved East, wrote books and criticism, grew a beard, affected a monocle. He went to work for The Smart Set, a sort of pretentious pulp, became its editor and transformed it into what Critic Burton Rascoe called "the most memorable, the most audacious, the best edited, and the best remembered of any magazine ever published on this continent...
...boasted he could live in the wilds alone, unaided save by knife and gun. He slept in caves and shelters which he called "forts." He let his hair grow to his shoulders, his beard to his bulging chest. He could throw a baseball in the air and put four rifle bullets into it before it fell. Eight years ago, when he was 18, he accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when...
...event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik who has shaved off his beard...
...Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, in 1929 the last to sing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir to the Russian throne, whom he has murdered. Last week, its last this season, the Metropolitan revived Boris...
...Chicago, Joseph Algori hoisted himself up 30 feet in a painter's scaffold to a newly painted sign of a pretty girl, proceeded to paint on her face a full Vandyck beard. On his return to earth, police arrested him on charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct, intoxication...