Word: beards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week, spoke Chief Scout Daniel Carter Beard, 77, founder of U. S. Boy Scouts, at the Boy Scout camp near Bear Mountain, N. Y. Among his listeners were Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, Barron Collier, August Heckscher, Will H. Hays, Edward F. Albee, William H. ("Big Bill") Edwards, General Robert Lee Bullard, and some 800 Boy Scouts...
...Authors Beard, tracing the rise of American civilization, produce no hotchpotch of trends and directions. With delicate care they measure the currents which have furnished the nation's momentum. Concerned most largely with political events they analyze these in detail, showing from what sources they sprang, to what results they led. Their book is crammed with small, juicy facts, which like the raisins on a pudding, give it taste...
These words were spoken last week in Camden, N. J., by a man with a torrent of white beard, clad in loose-fitting, almost shabby clothing. The man was masquerading as Walt Whitman in Christopher Morley's tart one-act play, Walt. Author Morley, smiling, robustious, pensive, was present as master of ceremonies...
...never repels, and possessed of an invaluable countenance which seldom smiles yet is always graciously reassuring. She does not dominate the King, as is vulgarly supposed; for his genuinely strong will and active judgment are at variance with the softened expression lent to his face by a silky beard...
...lank, sunburned individual walked down the street. He stooped and had a two-days' growth of beard. He was encased in blue overalls, stitched with white. In one hand he carried a pail half filled with a dark brown paint; in the other a heavy brush. It was Bill Jones going to paint his barn...