Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solace of Loneliness. "The Young Marshal and I had not seen each other for eight long years. This time he found my beard had turned white, and I thought he had got much fatter...
Early one morning this week (351 years ago), a slight old man with skin like alabaster and a beard like carded wool sat on his bed, raised his blue eyes to heaven and died. Cardinals had sought his blessing, popes had humored his whims and solicited his advice. Yet Philip Neri was neither a mighty prince of the church nor a hair-shirt hermit of the desert. He was a saint...
...influenced our early lives." A gentle tear for the boys I left behind me. There is wit in "Solo in Tom-Toms," but the memoirs of a lesser journalist, though perhaps more lively than those of a prominent statesman, are scarcely important enough to trot out the long gray beard and the backward look...
...read to a reporter passages from one of his past speeches, Jinnah screwed a monocle into his right eye. He wears Moslem dress only because his enemies sneer that Jinnah, head of India's Moslem League, is lax in his religious observances. ("Jinnah does not have a beard; Jinnah does not go to the Mosque; Jinnah drinks whiskey!") With his perfect English, which he speaks better than his native Gujerati, his slick grey hair and graceful, precise gestures, he might be a European diplomat of the old school. How such a man at a fateful moment in history came...
Dickens set out to prove that he had "renewed his youth." He claimed that he was not his children's father but their "elder brother." He dyed his hair and beard. He replaced his aging friends with younger men. He made a bonfire of all the letters he had kept, exclaiming as they blazed: "Would to God every letter I had ever written was on that pile...