Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICA IN MIDPASSAGE-Charles A. Beard & Mary R. Beard-Macmillan...
...such fugitives from history, learned, liberal Historians Charles and Mary Beard this week provided America in Midpassage (the third volume of their Rise of American Civilization), a condensed but still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...
Impartial historians are as rare as "impartial" politicians. The Beard style, with its heavy clattering of cliches, lightened by an occasional urbane understatement or neatly turned irony, gives a skilful impression of impartiality. The impartial Beards' smartest trick is ventriloquizing moot points through historical Charlie McCarthies: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster...
...Authors. Declining to reveal which is which in their literary partnership, Charles Austin Beard claims that the secret of his congenial collaboration with his charming wife, Mary, is "division of argument." But Charles Beard is the solid head historian of the history-writing Beard family (Daughter Miriam: A History of the Business Man; Son William: Government and Technology; Son-in-Law Alfred Vagts: The History of Militarism...
Pound expressed his ideas in Professor Theodore Spencer's house, with whom he stayed while in Cambridge. He is a tall, stocky man with nervous mannerisms and a beard which time has changed from red to an indefinite color. He were a blue sult, a wide-collared shirt with a loosely knotted tie and punctuated his remarks by throwing him self forward in his chair when he wanted to make a point. Once he Jumped onto the arm of his chair to illustrate that America was on the economic precipice and the ways in which a fall could be avoided...