Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle Days-Charles and Mary Beard...
Frock Coat & Beard. All last week, other Republicans were out in full force from coast to coast: Speaker Joe Martin in New York, Governor Earl Warren in Los Angeles, Candidate Harold Stassen in Philadelphia. In Indianapolis, G.O.P. Chairman Carroll Reece rounded up a stable of Republican orators for a nationwide Lincoln Day broadcast. In Boston, a Massachusetts college president dressed up in a frock coat and long black beard to recite Lincoln's second inaugural address...
...does not look the part. His scholarly forehead, his small, sparkling eyes, his massive and majestic beard set him apart from other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...
...first seen Ernest Ansermet (rhymes with ah sir may) and his black, square-cut beard 32 years ago, conducting while Nijinsky danced. It was Ansermet who gave the U.S. its first taste of Stravinsky's tart Petrouchka and Debussy's heady L'Après-Midi d'un Faune...
Children adored him; so did the mangy, half-starved dogs that wandered with him through the steep, cobblestoned streets of mountaintop La Paz. For 20 years, this tall foreigner with the long blond beard had gone about the Indian capital selling pencils. One morning two years ago, he was found dead in the streets-of a heart attack, the coroner said...