Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historian Charles A. Beard, in a solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian. Official Medal-Pinner Van Wyck Brooks took pains to point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard...
With an estimated $20,000 beginning to roll in from Nature Boy, Eden is feeling quite a pull from the West. He still likes to sleep outdoors (he is married, expecting a child), but is now pestered by reporters who ask him about his song, his beard, and what yoga means. He is about to give up his bicycle for a car-something hard-seated like a jeep...
...Varsity lacrosse team will beard New Hampshire's Wildcats in their lair this afternoon and will try to return from Durham, N. H., with a second victory under its belt. At the same time, George Hanford's '51 squad plays the New Hampshire Yearlings, and Eddie Davis' Jayvees open their season by playing host to New England College on the Business School Field...
After the fight, Roughneck Rocky Graziano swaggered to his dressing room, wearing a big grin. It contrasted with the bellicose look of his tousled mop of hair and two-day growth of beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhh-damn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around...
Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...