Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lineups: Eliot--cf, Murphy; 1b, Crumrine; lf, Hubbell; c, Farmer; ss, Robb; 2b, Bartle; 3b, Shapers; rf, Cady; p, Cobb, Young, Foster. Kirkland--ss, Stevenson; 3b, Wintor; 1b, Rosinus; lf, Higgins; rf, Senay, Beard; cf, Glynn, McKittrick; c, Grunby; 2b, Zahn; p. Bush, Senay...
James McNeill Whistler was really two people. He was a pugnacious little dandy in a wide-brimmed, flat hat, who sported a tuft of beard under his lip and tugged at it gently when he was thinking up malicious dodges to discomfit his enemies. Whistler fought the world from the day he was kicked out of West Point for flunking chemistry. ("Had silicon been a gas,'' he is reported to have said, "I would have been a major general.") Between rounds, Whistler became instead an immensely solemn, self-absorbed artist, who turned his friends and the London...
...acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object he took from the salver; it was not sacred. He simply picked up the large yellow, celluloid comb (lacking three teeth) and combed the patriarchal hair and beard in full view of the congregation...
...Peiping Rotary Club luncheon, "is let my readers participate in my experiences in collecting news, whether it's real or phony." He had been letting his readers in on his facts & fancies since he joined U.P. in South America at 19. Fired in Paris (for wearing a red beard, according to Pack), he was rehired to cover the Ethiopian and Spanish wars. He was Rome bureau chief when the Fascists interned him and his wife, Eleanor, whose by-line had become as well-known and somewhat more reliable. The Packards got even with Mussolini by writing a book called...
Dean Sperry, whose sixty-fifth birthday last Saturday leaves him one year short of the retirement age, became dean in 1922. He is also Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, professor of Homiletics the art of preaching, and chairman of the Beard of Preachers...