Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pheleas Bedard was a mime as well as a singer. His little face was covered with a tufty white beard above which two tiny eyes were set like shoebuttons. He often lifted his eyebrows in an arch grimace, to show that the rhyming words had a double meaning...
...general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats him as peasant swine. One night, he accidentally falls asleep in her boudoir and is degraded and cast into prison for his ungentlemanly mistake. The prison gives Mr. Barrymore an opportunity to put on the grease paints and a beard, to look horribly woebegone. The Red Revolution releases him from prison and he becomes a peasant dictator. He refuses to be a party to the execution of the haughty daughter, runs away with her to the Austrian frontier, while the audience discovers that she loved him all along...
Surprise was not the reaction of well-posted observers. They know that the other judges of the World Court are not filled with gladness when they espy the ruddy, oval face and trim white beard of John Bassett Moore...
When Jack Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be to face that hunched body with the enormous shoulders, endure the glare of those narrowed black eyes. . . . Last week in a District Court in Manhattan Jack Dempsey climbed into a chair and sat down. He had on a new suit, his fierce black eyes looked sheepish. He stuck his thumbs...
...next October. He will do business in a Park Avenue apartment, as unshop-like as possible. The sensation caused by this announcement was inferior only to that stirred some months ago, when M. Poiret appeared for the first time since boyhood with his face denuded of the dark, fascinating beard which every woman knew...