Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanson's name was made long before Tosanini honored him. At 20, a greenhorn from Wahoo, Neb., he was made a full-fledged professor at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. From there he went to Rome on an American Academy fellowship, grew his spindling little beard when he was invited to conduct the famed Augusteo Orchestra...
...Albert Augustus David, Anglican Bishop of Liverpool. Last fortnight he and some other British ecclesiasts publicly deplored the traditional custom of picturing Jesus Christ as meek & mild. They urged artists to paint Him as "strong and muscular." Said they: "We would not mind if the beard were sacrificed if that would make for a stronger face. People these days are inclined to be irreverent about beards, children particularly so. We want to get rid of sentimentality and substitute virility...
...impression of the Red leader: "There was nothing in his personal appearance to suggest even faintly a resemblance to the super-man. Short of stature, rather plump, with a short, thick neck, broad shoulders, round, red face, high intellectual forehead, nose slightly turned up, brownish moustache, and short, stubby beard, he looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew Lenin better, he was impressed by the man's will-power, his relentless determination, his lack of emotion. Lockhart found that Lenin was not to be moved by any appeal...
...cupid-encrusted office at No. 32 Nassau St., Manhattan, where Jay Gould used to play financial chess with railroads for queens, hulking old Leonor Fresnel Loree has sat growling into his beard for seven years, trying to thwart a checkmate. Occasionally he would stride over to a railroad map of the U. S. on which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell...
During the seven years in which he schemed for prestige L. F. Loree may sometimes have reflected cynically that if he had not been such a good executive he might have become a greater power. By nature, training and beard he belongs in the tradition of the earlier rail tycoons. From Rutgers, at 19, he went into railway engineering on Western roads, quit to carry a tripod with the Army Engineer Corps, quit that to survey a right of way for the Mexican National Railway. In 1883 he went to the Pennsylvania and began to make himself known. He could...