Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks of the Mississippi at Rock Island, Ill. Then he was made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned to the source of the lumber business, the forest. Snow in his beard, year after year he sleighed through the northern woods buying timber, selling part of it to others, forming holding companies, but always retaining the biggest individual share, what was in practice the controlling minority. When the north woods were stripped, he moved into Idaho, into Oregon and Washington...
Although all men who visit this holy place grow beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...
...shopping for "his sartorial foible. British underpants of a particular weave costing ?200 per pair," assumed to have "brought from India his special curry cook who takes twelve hours to prepare that dish," assumed to spend "three and a half hours every morning curling his sardonic beard and adjusting his jewel-studded turban...
...English friend who strolled in when he was pulling on his quite modest underpants, His Highness said, "I noticed yesterday that it took exactly two and a half minutes to comb my beard and put on my turban. I have not brought from India regalia worth eight million pounds Sterling. I left my curry cook in Paris to supervise the diet of the Maharanee who is ill. I don't insist that every article of leather be removed from any room I occupy. Most of my entourage are staying in Paris. I am here at the Savoy...
...barrage of mystifying questions. The senior member of the examining committee looked on sympathetically as the sharp, efficient young questioner astutely revealed alarming gaps in the victim's knowledge. The poor candidate simply could not remember whether or not such and such a sixteenth-century writer had a full beard, what he ate for breakfast on a certain morning, whether or not his wife washed his underwear, or, for that matter, whether or not he were underwear...