Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain no cartoonist is quite so feared by statesmen and beloved by the public as omnipresent David Low, whose children will not let him shave off the beard he grew on a boat trip down the Volga...
Grandmother appreciated the letters she received from all over the world relative to her "grow a beard" suggestion to the President...
...Well," she has often told us, "I did think that Mr. Lincoln looked very-well, homely. His features were large and rather uncouth. I guess it just occurred to me that he would look better if he wore a beard." While laboriously composing her letter to the great man (and she made only one draft of it) she suddenly became aware that the implications of her note might "hurt his feelings." To add a bit of possible salve she accordingly told the President that the "rail fence around your picture looks real pretty." This referred to the pictorial fence bordering...
...conclusion, after a careful summary of reasons why Lincoln should grow a beard and a really masterful and wholly feminine appeal to his vanity, was naively blunt: "Answer this letter right off-goodbye...
Musical history is slyly footnoted by the mishaps that befall famed artists. Metropolitan Opera veterans still chuckle over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown...