Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pale nervous Briton with a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard and a twisted hip hobbled forward to the witness stand. Again the clerk's voice droned on-carrying on military espionage under orders from his colleague, W. H. Thornton. . . . Helping wreck a power plant at the Zlatoust munitions factory. . . . Bribing Soviet citizens. ... At the end came the question, "Do you admit these charges...
Rare is the U. S. editor who has not snorted at the studied effronteries of George Bernard Shaw, recognizing them for what they frankly are: publicity bait. But rarer is the U. S. editor, as Mr. Shaw knows, who can resist printing readable copy. When his beard was red, Shaw's neatly phrased insults were truly startling. White-bearded now and more self-consciously rude, he still saws away so skilfully on his single string that the results are as monotonously fascinating as Oriental music. They and the magnificently photographable beard still keep him in the newspapers more steadily...
...accent was what brought him to Hollywood's attention but an infinite skill with certain kinds of characterization are what should prevent the attention from wavering. A poorer picture than Sweepings would be justified by Ratoffs rebuke to a department store Santa Claus whom he catches removing his beard: "Vat are you-Senta Claus or a bum we picked up for two-fifty...
...under her name-is James W. ("Big Jim") Healy. not to be confused with Tom Healey, who trains for Sonny Whitney. Sylvio Coucci is her ablest jockey. Financial adviser to Langollen Stable-and manager of most of the other racing enterprises of all the Whitneys-is Major Louie A. Beard, onetime captain of the U. S. Army polo team. Mrs. Whitney's racing string was enlarged from 41 horses in 1932, to 62 this year. Most notable purchase of the year by Jock Whitney was the Australian mare Nea Lap, sister of famed Phar Lap. Last winter...
...There are hatchet-men lurking in every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China, all the male characters in this play meet violent deaths. If one were not cinematically informed as to Chinese proclivities, he would be sorely tempted to apply the word melodrama...