Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin-the patriarch of the House, having served 17 terms. Still an old rebel. Tall, white hair, white beard, fair-spoken-the Progressives' candidate for Speaker. He considers himself the apostle of "True Republicanism...
Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina-only Civil War veteran in House, 87 years old. Was a major in Lee's army, wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Snow-white hair and beard, stooped shoulders, almost blind, a fine face. The House simply adores him. He rarely speaks. He is a small man in stature. A secretary conducts...
...life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests and finally with banishment to Tiflis and later Reval. Thus the President of Russia is of the honored Revolutionary Old Guard-a paladin of 53 whose sufferings have given him the look of 65, unless one notices that only his beard and not his hair is white...
...Whither Mankind" follows neither cycle. In this symposium Mr. Beard has merely striven for understanding, a pause to look back and glance at the balance sheet of our present day civilization. In the confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view...
...Beard must be given the credit for the vision which produced the above symposium, in which many others than have been commented upon, have spread the sphere of the present day before us. It asks or receives nothing, but in doing thus, it inspires a totally different and individual conception, aside from the traditional creeds, of the prevailing mode among such as "us moderns...