Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis Barnard, the poet, and David Lloyd who played Narciso, the lover, were also very fine. Marshall Heinbaugh, as Selim the Turk, was the only principal really beyond his element. It may have been the beard encircling his face, but every sound he made was so mufiled that the stage seemed three times further off than the one block it actually...
...Beards & Matches. In the afternoons, he prowled around the base, dressed in a tan slack suit whose rayon trousers bore a conspicuous patch. Evenings, there was "paper work" (poker) in the commandant's white, jalousied house which serves as the Little White House. By 10 o'clock Harry Truman was in bed. Clark Clifford, who padded around barefoot sporting a three-day beachcomber's beard, explained contentedly, "We're getting more fun out of just sitting. My feet are getting so tough I can light a match on them...
...take a swim with him. Someone asked if he would hold a press conference. "Not if I can help it," he declared promptly. When urged, he added: "Well, maybe, if you can think of some questions-and let me ask them." On his last visit, his Jeff Davis beard was gone. Bess Truman and Margaret were arriving that day, he explained...
...floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about 4:30 a.m. he woke up again and beard better news...
...Orthodox concern for sidecurls starts with Leviticus, 19:27: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." The Talmud carefully enumerates the corners: two on each cheek, one on the chin. Yemenite Jews often shave their heads, but leave the sidecurls (peoth) untouched...