Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers began to circulate a petition for a return to the three Rs. The petition struck a responsive chord. It soon had 340 signatures, turned out 400 parents one night to beard the Board of Education and argue about the shortcomings of Roslyn's three elementary schools. One by one they denounced Superintendent Wegner's highfalutin' notions, complained that their children could not read. Up jumped one taxpayer to snort that a class of boys had spent an entire...
Last week in Washington, two tall Wounded Knee veterans named James Pipe-on-Head and Dewey Beard called on small Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier. Their purpose: to urge him to ask Congress to award $1,000 to all living Indian survivors of the battle, including themselves...
...sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
Most cogent of a string of other objectors to a bigger U. S. Navy was eminent Historian Charles A. Beard whose thesis was the eminently simple one that the only possible excuse for giving the Navy $800,000,000 was to implement the President's desire to "quarantine" aggressor nations; that such a quarantine would mean "aggressive warfare in the far Pacific or the far Atlantic"; and that if, on the contrary, "Congress intends to provide defense for the American domain of interest in this hemisphere, it should make corresponding alterations in the President's program." Historian Beard...
Said Professor Schaper's good friend, famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "... A monument to freedom of inquiry." In Oklahoma, William Schaper, now white-haired, bit his lip to hold back the tears, faltered: "It is so sudden I hardly know what to say. I never have borne a grudge against any man involved in my dismissal. Of course I am profoundly grateful...