Word: bearding
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...people." Says he: "The realistic play is not realistic at all, but just a slice off the top of existence. Writing a realistic play is like meeting a human being for the first time. The realist would observe that this is Mr. So-and-So, that he has a beard and an accent and a mole on his face. But the human being is far more peculiar, something that has gone on since the beginning of time, now miraculously summed up in the strange sort of mysterious creature that stands before...
...afraid of being taken in and afraid of being left out; the lazy sponger with an uncanny eye for the latest thing in letters who privately believes that modern writing is "so rotten that it may be good, in a rotten way"; the scraggly poet with "a thin virgin beard" who preaches that "the true decadent has no modesty...
Waldo Peirce has always been as much noted for his shady whiskers as for his sunny paintings. Last week the balance between bush and brush was temporarily destroyed. Woolly old Waldo emerged from behind his beard, and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me. staged a big retrospective show...
...year-old down-Easter went at his barbering with the same slapdash spirit that characterized his paintings. On Sunday he hacked off the beard, but didn't have the heart to disturb his drooping, discolored mustache. On Wednesday he emerged new-mown from the bathroom minus even the mustache. "Ellen," he said of his young, pretty wife (his fourth), "had never seen my face naked, and I thought I'd better let her have a look...
...give bait to caught fish." Undergraduates--all of whom must pay the University for beard--often find nine o'clock too early to get up for breakfast. Their extra time in bed does not cost the University a cent. The University, indeed, is paid for food it never...