Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewing, 53, Bostonian born, was long a noted figure at Harvard, no less for his trenchant teachings than for his handsome beard-which has never been shaved, which once, on shipboard, caused him to be mistaken for a Maharaja. No mere academician is he. Ten or 15 years ago he began buying up small New England utility companies that were not doing too well. Turning precept to example, he put them on a profitable basis. While Insull interests and New England Power Co. were struggling for control of New England utilities, he more than held his own, adding...
Famed in Italy's politics of the past five years are two blackbearded men sometimes called "the twins." The other with the beard is Dino Grandi, onetime Minister of Foreign Affairs. There is a story that when II Duce ousted Signor Grandi from the cabinet last year he simultaneously sent Air Minister Balbo a letter informing him that his "resignation was accepted." Minister Balbo is supposed to have marched straight in upon II Duce, handed back the letter as "sent by mistake." That tale is told by antiFascists to illustrate their belief that Premier Mussolini fears his Air Minister...
...Albert Pratt, Robert Hugh Prew, William Carroll Quigley, Edwin Carter Rae, Earle Stanley Randall, Alfred Hertz Rosenthal, Jacob Elliott Rubinow, William Henry Schofield, Theodore Winston Sharp, Edward Pease Shaw, Ralph Edmund Shikes, Abraham Solomon Silin, William Sowden Sims, Jr., Charles Sumner Spalding, Francis Van Vanice, Leo Waitzkin, George Beard Walker, Arthur William Well, Jr., David Maxwell Well, Seymour Joseph Wener, Charles Wiley Williams...
Born. To Edna Bes,. 33, English actress (There's Always Juliet), and Herbert Marshall, 43, film actor: a daughter; in London. To her first husband, Seymour Beard, Edna Best bore twin sons...
...windows that opened on new, green spring in Merion. He admired the pictures by modern Europeans on Dr. Barnes's walls. said nothing of the few U. S. pictures. Last week he went to visit his son Pierre who runs a Manhattan art gallery. Wagging his white British beard, staring out of spectacled grey eyes, he told reporters who wanted his reaction to the Rockefeller-Rivera fight (TIME, May 22), "Art is above politics. . . . No one need look at a picture unless he is interested in painting. For information he can go elsewhere." Then the great Henri Matisse sailed...