Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgrade's 12,000 Jews were killed or sent away. Cohen's name was listed among the dead or missing. But Cohen was not dead. Last week, having heard the Germans had left, Cohen came out of his tomb. He was pale, shrunken, with a big, matted beard. He told how every day the sexton had brought him food and the newspapers. One coffin, encrusted with candle drippings, had been his table, another...
...Marcel Andre Henri Felix Petiot is a tall, elegant man whose brown curly beard stretches from ear to ear. Seven months ago a peculiar odor coming from his Paris house attracted unwanted attention. Inside, police found the remains of 50 to 60 persons, bits of their clothing and jewelry. At first they could not find Dr. Petiot, but last fortnight they did. He was waiting for a subway in the Saint-Mande station. Dr. Petiot wore the uniform of an F.F.I captain...
Laura (Gene Tierney) is an ambitious beginner in the advertising business when she dares to beard the exquisite columnist-commentator Waldo Lydecker (Webb) in his noontime lair at the Algonquin. Though her nerve earns her some carbolic insults from the great man, it makes her in almost no time his protegee. As such, she soon becomes a high-powered executive and gives a job to polo-playing Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), under the very nose of his only visible means of support, Park Avenue's well-heeled Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson). Both Ann and Waldo are patently annoyed...
Problems, not personalities, were on the reading public's mind. On most nonfiction best-seller lists were Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision, Charles & Mary Beard's A Basic History of the United States, Edgar Snow's People on Our Side, Walter Lippmann's U.S. War Aims, Joseph C. Grew's Ten Years in Japan...
Roger Sherman, Wedgewood's dapperest widower, came in, stroking his Vandyke beard. He pressed Emily's hand warmly. "I have tickets for the concert," he said. "They are playing Brahms. ... If one of you dear ladies. . . ." "How nice!" cried Emily. "Brahms," said Margaret, "is rather tiresome...