Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins. Now, at 44, he calls his settings "not pictures, but images. . . ." But this solid knowledge of good theatre makes Jones's designs less effective on a gallery wall than on a stage. At one time Decorator Jones had a Christlike beard and a nice talent in portrait painting. He sacrificed whiskers and easel as his position in the theatre became more secure. What he had to show last week were frankly working drawings...
...Newark, N. J. one day last week a wrinkled old Negro with a fuzzy grey head sat on an ash can on Market Street, his bushy grey beard on his chest, one leathery hand extended for alms. Arrested, he was taken to the station house. The desk sergeant began the routine of booking him. Name? John Torthi. Birthplace? Lynchburg, Va. Date? June 4, 1824. The desk sergeant looked up astonished. Was this old fellow 107 years old? The Negro nodded his head, explained that he had been a slave nearly 40 years before being freed by the Proclamation of Emancipation...
...suppose," Poetess Naidu will say fondly of her father, "that in the whole of India there were more than a few men of greater learning or more greatly beloved. He had a great white beard and the profile of Homer and a laugh that brought the roof down. He wasted all his money on two objects: to help others and alchemy. He held huge courts every day in his garden and entertained all the learned men of all religions, rajas and beggars, saints and downright villains, all delightfully mixed up and all treated as one. And then his alchemy...
...foils Gilbert Kerlin '33 and J. G. Hurd '34 will be the chief contenders for the crown, while G. M. Yatsevitch '33 is also a strong bid for the lead. In the epee matches T. L. Moran '32 is a clear favorite, although J. H. Beard '34 may press him closely in the finals. R. B. Lawson '32 and H.P. Walker '33 will be the only members to compete...
...sleep with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend he is a gnome. But as gnomes are known to milk other people's cows, the two of them must milk cows too. Unfortunately the cows in this part of the country are buffaloes; unfortunately the buffaloes will not rise to be milked. But for the first time...