Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives and men's souls." Disguised as a smooth-faced young compulsive or a solid English gentleman, he gained admission to private gambling clubs and forced men with his eyes to play millions of marks into his hands. Made up as Dr. Weltmann in long seraggly hair and beard, he conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women who loved him and abducted those who did not. At the end, in a house surrounded by cops with the Army arriving, he imagined he could outgun...
...human counterparts in judgment or synthesizing power. Both men are strongly committed to astrology. Damaska radiated enthusiasm from his bright blue eyes and his wiry brown hair that effervesced from his head. He wore agray-brown suit, a blue-and-green. striped-and-flowered tie, and a full beard. Lutin wore a pink shirt and a collarless blue sports jacket. An ascot was tied around his neck, and his greasy black thinning hair was stretched sparsely across his scalp, painfully trying to cover the bald spots until it could relax in a thick growth at the bottom of his neck...
...well dressed alumni wife, spying the Moratorium buttons worn by my date and I, shouting to her fellow pre-noon cocktail party imbibers, "Oh, not another one this week": tow short-haired mid-fortyish couples in the station wagon next to my car, upon seeing my comb my beard. remarking, "Take a look at that creep, will...
...suspend their rule barring Lebanese and Western newsmen from the country. As a result, Arafat had a sizable EastWest audience for the first formal press conference he has ever held. Oozing confidence, the guerrilla leader strode into the Damascus University law-school auditorium wearing a five-day growth of beard but without the tinted wraparound sunglasses that have become something of a trademark...
...when the Lampoon ground out its second Time parody, recorded its Surprising Sheep album, and ran at least one candidate for the mayoralty of New York, these latter-day Barnums could also have published a 160-page paperback. First editions do claim to have been authored by "Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney," who enthusiastically confess in a chatty little Forward how they overcame being 'handicapped by near-fatal hangovers and the loss of all our bodily hair (but that's another story).' Another story, indeed! For between this brace of leering parentheses, the whole hoax is revealed. Obviously...