Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morris Shapiro, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Chester Smith, Jr., of Detroit, Michigan; Andrew Joseph Torielli, of Watertown, Massachusetts; Richard Williams Vilter, of Cincinnati, Ohio; George Beard Walker, of Albany, New York; Arthur William Well, of Cedarhurst, New York; David Maxwell Weil, of Chicago, Illinois...
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and possessed of an immense curly grey beard, His Lordship has the high Salisbury forehead for which his father was famed. Long rector of Hatfield. Herts, seat of the Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church...
...many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed with him. whispering softly, watching and waiting. Thirteen days passed. Pinchas Bloch grew weaker, hoarser. He was taken to a hospital. That night...
...Budapest, Camillo Felleghy and his troupe of four strolling players hopefully mangled Shakespeare's King Lear before an impressed peasant audience who ended by calling for "Author! Author!" When Felleghy responded wearing a false beard hooked over his ears, bowing his thanks, three Shakespeare lovers who had seen King Lear at the Budapest State Theatre leaped to their feet, hurled eggs & onions at Felleghy-Shakespeare. rushed onto the stage and beat him with canes. In Budapest County Court they were fined 20 pengoes ($3.49) each...
...oldsters were retired Broker Alan Ramsay Hawley, a round-faced, grey-haired gentleman who won the International in 1910; and famed old Aeronaut-Poet Augustus Post, an arresting figure of lordly carriage, with grey trowel beard, curling mustaches and somewhat rambling speech. He was Mr. Hawley's co-pilot on the 1910 flight in which they made an unofficial distance record which has never been surpassed-1,172 mi. Other oldtimers. proud of their kinship in the venerable clan of ballooning, came to congratulate Settle and Van Orman. (Their respective copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced...