Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then if they don't, why the teacher's an ass! "We don't want to teach grammar, and what-shall we do If we don't take good care that these dunces get through? " Look here," says the chairman, and beams through his beard, I've got the idea;" through his glasses he seared All dissenters. "Hey! Silence! Now listen, youse guys, "Pay attention a minute; don't try to be wise! "It's simple, so simple; when they make a break, "All that you do is say, 'Why, that...
Premier Thorvald Stauning, a strapping Social Democrat with a beard as big as Santa Claus's has been asking and fighting for iron control of Danish imports by the State. Last week both houses of the Danish Parliament gave Premier Stauning what he wanted as an early Christmas present...
...interest. His family always insisted that John Rogers was a self-taught sculptor. In 1858 he had saved enough pennies for a trip to Italy - not originally to study but to rest his overstrained eyes on the long sea trip. In Rome, where he arrived with a curly brown beard like a myopic apostle, he took a few lessons from a British sculptor named Spence and learned the newly discovered process for making plaster casts from gelatin molds. John Rogers invented many improvements...
...Watt has divided the "Shockers" into two groups, the castle and the convent stories. The differences between the two is merely a matter of architecture and costume. The "blue-beard baron" and the "murderous monk" for instance, both seduce virtuous maidens, and persecute heroes...
Early last September a plow-nosed man with a beard alighted from a bus at Whittier, in the Great Smoky Mountains, 60 mi. west of Asheville, N.C. Soon most of Whittier's 287 inhabitants knew him by sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with...