Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Daniel Carter (Dan) Beard, illustrator, author (Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance ; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles; Do It Yourself); "oldest Boy Scout," co-founder of Boy Scouts of America with Ernest Thompson Seton and Lt. -General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace...
About Mr. Hughes' whiskers he says: "Of hair and beard he has enough to make nests for twenty orioles...
Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...
Married. Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn; to Marian Spore, sister of Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam; at Reno. Nev., one hour after Mrs. Maud Howard Beard Bush, his second wife, had obtained a Reno divorce in absentia...
...Books, acknowledged to be more serious now than at any time since the black year of 1917, went into this latest, exciting phase, the American Booksellers' Association gathered in convention in New York. At their closing banquet they were entertained by a brother act featuring Dr. Charles Austin Beard ( Whither Mankind) and one Westinghouse Televox. Mr. Televox, controlled by a pitchpipe between the lips of R. H. Maxwell, Westinghouse engineer, spoke in the voice of Dr. Beard. He began, "As Dr. Beard so kindly said, I am the personification of the machine age which he defends...