Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space on the fortified wall between two turrets, Sir Walter Raleigh walked. He had a small white beard and a bedraggled ruff about his neck, of the kind that had been in fashion a dozen years before. He walked back and forth in the narrow space, stopping from time to time to look at the water and at the ships there. He had sailed those boats to Virginia, and brought back wealth and power for himself and his queen. Then he turned away and walked back and forth again, making the four-step turn that British sailors have used since...
...Grace who also was a doctor of medicine) were able cricketers during Queen Victoria's reign. But William Gilbert ("W. G.") Grace was incomparably the world's greatest all-round player the game has ever produced. A huge (6 ft. 2 in.) player, with his bushy, grey beard, dinky red & yellow cap and sometimes cranky disposition, he was as well known as Disraeli or Gladstone. As batsman, between 1865 and 1908 he made 54,896 runs, never surpassed. He considered cricket a science, was meticulous in his selection of bats.* The bat which "W. G." preferred was straight...
...White Star Liner Britannic put in at Boston last week. Down the gangplank walked a handsome, fox-bearded gentleman with a black slouch hat and the mysterious manner of the Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits...
...Germany had knocked down four, enough to disqualify him. John Alton Keller of Ohio State had knocked down two and finished fourth, Donald Finlay of England who was given fourth place until an electro-photograph of the finish proved that he was third, was a step behind Percy Beard, Alabama Tech instructor whose scissor legs usually make up over the jumps what speed they lack on the flat. Even University of Iowa's lean George Saling had kicked over one hurdle, the last, when it was too late for Beard and Keller, who had fought for the lead through...
...Lord told the Prophet Ezekiel to ". . . take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard. . . ." (Ezekiel v, i.) But the Biblical record failed to specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless...