Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presented as one of the most successful guinea pigs was Hubert K. Beard '10, a former president of the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing. He dramatized several of the problems confronting the hard of hearing, such as making adjustments for musical sounds as well as conversation...
...Spiritual Wives." By that time, Watts' silky beard was greying and he was known as "Signer" to many a famous, whiskered Victorian. Statesman Gladstone and Disraeli, Poets Tennyson and Browning, Novelists Thackeray and George Eliot, Ruskin, and the young pre-Raphaelite Painters Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough...
...Utmost. Back in England, they built a country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost...
Chindecency. In Anchorage, Alaska, the mayor warned that any man without a beard between Feb. 27 and March 2 (the city's fur carnival period) would be charged with indecent exposure...
...Venning (under whose signature three of her 15 books have been written) and Daphne Saunders (who has signed one of the 15). Michael Venning's biography has been called for by Who's Who and (for a gag) she has posed for his picture wearing a crepe beard, and her husband's coat...