Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule, in politics men take up a position either to the left or right. Then the wiseacre comes along and combs his beard with his hand and says: 'Children, neither to the right nor to the left: the golden middle way.' This man with the beard has no outlook of his own. The right and the left have their definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form...
Three weeks ago a pal bet Alf 10 shillings and two gallons of beer that he couldn't grow a beard and keep it on till Easter. Alf figured the bet was a cinch, because he had grown a beard last summer and none of his bosses had said a word. This time, however, Brewery Manager Jack Redmund (who had been Alf's officer in the territorials during the war) issued an ultimatum: "Shave it off or work inside." A brewery executive explained: "We didn't feel that the growth of the beard upheld the prestige...
...forget the whole business. But Alf, taking his turn on the picket line, turned the offer down cold. "After all," he said, and his fellow strikers agreed, "it's the principle of the thing. A man has a right to grow a beard any time he wants...
...meadows of Graves's obscurity are hedged round with a thorny but exhibitionist defense. He masks his face with bangs and a beard, and wears expensive grey flannel suits under an overcoat shabby enough for the radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...
...dusty gloom of the financial pages, to tell what one TIME editor called "the vast and lurid and exciting and beautiful bibliography of balance sheets," TIME broke new ground. It went to great pains to get a picture of Sosthenes Behn (the only available picture had a beard which he had shaved long before), and introduced the Hartford brothers to their A. & P. stores' customers. Out of those efforts grew FORTUNE. Even in its early years, TIME was highly selective about the three-inch, one-column portraits of people which were then the only kind of illustration TIME used...