Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...
That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...
Poet-Novelist George Meredith had been an early admirer, but had been dismissed because his beard was too bristly. Other admirers or callers came & went-an old judge who claimed that he had loved 100 women, no more, no less; the great Lord Northcliffe, who usually passed at least part of each visit relaxing prone on the floor. "There's absolutely nothing to be surprised about in someone choosing to lie on his stomach," Marie Leighton explained. "The sooner you children learn to accept any eccentricity as though it were a commonplace, the better equipped you will...
Bill Currier, another import from Jay Thomas's Yardling squad, won a 4 to 3 decision over Indian Neil Beard in the 136-pound weight while captain Don Louria fought to a 2 to 2 draw with Fred Klett at the 165-pound class in a match in which almost all the action was inconclusive sparring from standing...
...probable starting lineups: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Dennison 121 Barnes Knox 128 Bach (capt.) Currier or Trinkle 136 Beard Trinkle or Ray 145 Hoyde Jones 155 Larson Louria (capt.) 165 Klett Claflin or Rogers or Howard 175 Birdsall Fuller or Houston Unlim Persons