Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slide for the captured leaders. On the contrary a great show of courtesy was made-the duration of which would doubtless match the duration of the revolt. Havana regarded Machado's triumph sourly. There were no cheers, there were no crowds. General Menocal stepped ashore first, gaunt, his beard (which makes him look so much like Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt) untrimmed. his clothes torn and soiled. Yet he held his shoulders square, marched with head high past the clicking cameras. Fat old Carlos Mendieta. one eye swollen shut, slumped behind him, a dirty yellow slicker drooping from his shoulders...
...Whitelaw Reid at whose home, "Ophir Hall." the royal party stayed. Barber Fischer described a summons to "Ophir Hall" about ten days after the operation on His Majesty's eye, "to come up and shave His Majesty. The King, I may say, usually shaves himself. Now his beard had grown in the interim. I was aware that this would be a very difficult operation. ... I was ushered into a room almost pitch dark, a room about 60 by 40 feet. The King was in an easy chair far away from the window. ... I found he was not permitted...
...hours and ten min. with STALIN, after which. Mr. Shaw told newshawks, who discerned, through his beard, a red necktie: "Well, we found that he wears a black mustache...
...actors are members of the Big Bethel, choir supplemented, outside Atlanta, by singers from other colored churches. St. Peter is Henry Mathews, a onetime slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join...
...Author. If you had never seen a picture of Giles Lytton Strachey you would never think from reading his books that he is spindle-shanked and spectacled, with a long red beard and a falsetto voice. Cousin of the late John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, Lytton Strachey first made a name for himself by writing Landmarks in French Literature (1912); nine years later Queen Victoria made him a bestseller. Unmarried, 51, Strachey lives in London but goes to the country to work; "it isn't so much the noises of London that prevent concentration...