Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Bridges, shocked of hair, bestubbled of beard, was appointed Poet Laureate† by King George in 1913, thereby disappointing, if not enraging, a vast horde of Kiplingites throughout the Commonwealth; for Dr. Bridges, despite his four university degrees, was unknown, except to a small but influential circle of admirers...
...flickering, undernourished group of players that went by the name of the San Francisco Symphony. They made big appropriations, swept clean, ousted Conductor Henry Hadley, called Alfred Hertz from New York. Then 43, there were as many gold stars on his record as there were hairs in his beard, stars that went all the way back to his earliest days in Frankfort, when, a square little Hessian boy in skirts, he pulled himself up onto the music piano stool and walked his fingers up and down the keyboard until the neighbors poked their heads out the windows and shook threatening...
...startling figure-bulky, halt, not a hair to disturb the glassy smoothness of his pate, and a bush for a beard...
Onetime Farmer Hainisch smiled under his ample white beard and bushy mustachios, for he had conspicuously brought himself to the notice of the Viennese, who are so hazy about their Chief Executive that many are alleged not to know his name. Still more gratifying was the news that Lower Austria (a province) may adopt the poem as its official anthem, not having had a song of its own since the fall of the monarchy...
Moscow approved The Bat. The Tsar saw the show; invited M. Balieff to dinner. Came 1917 and revolution. In 1919 Nikita Balieff was jailed because he "was not consented with their views on poltique." He pointed his fingernails and skulking behind a long square beard escaped to Georgia (southern Russia) as a Persian...