Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their faces at odd intervals. Rain glisters the brightly vacuous expression of the younger man. It sprays the old man, gray with pain and hopelessness, and blinds his eyes that are so dark with trouble, smoldering with anguish. It washes the hair down over his eyes, and mats his beard, lending an eerie, crazy look...
...plains which furnished nearly half of Britain's Indian troops in the War, and the Maharajas of Patiala have been strongly pro-British for 100 years. The present Maharaja is thus one of the most politically potent Princes in India. A huge, sinister man with a curled black beard, full contemptuous lips and heavy-lidded sensual eyes, he is an able, hard-working administrator, owns 300 automobiles, 42 of them Rolls-Royces, keeps the biggest kennels in India and is president of the All-India Gun Dog Club, has a corps of wives and one of the world...
Brahms lived his last 35 years in Vienna where he was celebrated for his gruff, churlish ways, his eccentric appearance. He went around in a shabby alpaca coat, trousers inches too short. His beard covered his shirt front, so he never wore a collar. On rainy days he took his daily walk in the Prater wrapped in an old-fashioned green shawl fastened in front with an enormous pin. Like Scientist Albert Einstein he scorned socks...
...directions with the manly Brisson dimples but managing more than in his earlier pictures to tone down the Brisson mannerisms. A situation develops well toward the middle of the piece when the King's wife (Mary Ellis), who has run away from home because the King's beard tickled, comes back and finds the actor in the King's bedchamber minus beard. Eugene Pallette, as Brisson's stooge, contributes comic relief with gags like: Lord Chancellor: "The Queen's bedroom must remain inviolate." Pallette: "Violet's all right. I just wanted to sleep there...
Noah (by Andre Obey; Jerome Mayer, producer). Playwright Obey begins this naive fable with the First Navigator banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith...