Word: bearding
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...dissenters organized just once to give the High Table a keen, if short-lived, ribbing. The Low Table, started and ended on one evening in the thirties, was manned by some twenty-odd gentlemen resplendent in knickers, white tie, top hat, and white beard. The Lows sat just under the dais and taunted the Highs until, coerced, the Highs conceded and invited their bearded caricatures to dinner...
...young man had sailed alone on his raft for 51 days. When he boarded the British freighter Arakaka in the Atlantic three weeks ago, he had a thick, dark beard, and his rotted clothing was caked with salt and fish blood. He was a Frenchman named Alain Louis Bombard, 28, he told open-mouthed passengers and crewmen. He had set out on the raft from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in mid-October. Since then, he had lived solely on food and drink gathered at sea: fish, sea birds, barnacles, plankton (minute animal and vegetable life floating...
...Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer, 5 ft. 11 in., plays Lautrec's father and, standing on knees in stumpy boots for closeups, 4 ft. 8 in. Artist Lautrec. (A dwarf was used for long shots.) Ferrer's is a startling physical likeness: bloated lips, bulbous nose, bushy beard, pince-nez and bowler. But, although his well-nourished performance touches on Lautrec's wittiness and waspishness, it sometimes seems to miss out on his inner loneliness and agony. The women in Lautrec's life make an exotic gallery: blonde French Dancer Colette Marchand as the rapacious streetwalker...
Decked out in beard and spectacles, Clifton Webb plays Sousa as a wry, rather pixyish personality. But the role gives ex-Dancer Webb an opportunity to do the two-step, which was introduced in 1890 to the strains of Sousa's Washington Post march. Stars and Stripes Forever hits a few sour notes in its long-winded dialogue stretches, but when it strikes up the band and plays the stuffing out of such rousing Sousa marches as Semper Fidelis and the title tune, it is a spirited show...
...beard turns up to heaven; my napefalls...