Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying that Berthelot had predicted that a hundred years from now, thanks to physical and chemical science, men would know of what the atom is constituted. ... To all this we raised no objection, but we have the feeling that when this time comes in science, God with His white beard will come down to earth, swinging a bunch of keys, and will say to humanity, the way they say at 5 o'clock at the Salon, 'Closing time, gentlemen...
Dressed in Western clothes, with his reddish beard shaved off, and equipped with a false passport, the Mufti apparently left France last fortnight on a T.W.A. plane for Egypt. In Cairo he disappeared. Next day a U.P. dispatch from Damascus said that the Mufti was in Syria, at a meeting of the Arab League called to resist the Anglo-U.S. plan for transferring 100,000 European Jews to Palestine. But the U.P. later admitted that the Mufti's whereabouts were uncertain, and the Syrian Government denied that he had entered by air or through any frontier post...
...valley and started yoo-hooing and heard an answer. Someone called 'Amerikano?' We turned and said 'yes' and they hollered back 'Chetniks.' They came running down toward us and we hollered with joy, so they started kissing us and we started kissing them, beard...
...swarm of sweating, portly pashas to elect a new patriarch, the 114th successor to St. Mark as Pope of Egyptian Christianity. Among the electors, for the first time, were both Egyptian laymen and swarthy delegates of the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The choice: Archbishop Anba Yussab, 63, whose flowing white beard gives him a proper patriarchal dignity. Ordained 40 years ago in a desert monastery founded by St. Anthony, he later studied theology in Athens,* was an abbot in Jerusalem during World War I, when he showed great diplomacy in dealing with the successive rulers of the Holy City...
...Rome loved him and laughed at him. He received exalted personages with his clothes turned inside out. He danced alone through the streets with his beard half shaved off, or strutted about carrying a huge bunch of broom which he pretended to sniff delightedly. Sometimes, in token of his humility, he would appear in public with a large blue cushion perched upon his head...