Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smooth-skinned gentleman with bushy dark beard and silky hair then added: "I go in a year's time. I shall take every English musician to America with me I can. . . . A friend of mine in California spends as much on an orchestra as we spend in the whole of England. The future home of English opera is the United States...
...Nettleton, Chairman of the Beard of Athletic Control, said, "Yale will regret deeply any interruption of those athletic relations that have been enjoyed under the triple agreement. Relations with Princeton and Harvard have always been cordial in New Havent, no change has been considered, and I see no reason why this unfortunate rupture should alter our situation...
...summary: JUNIORS SENIORS Dearborn, Lewis l.e. r.e. Kelly Clapp, Herman l.t. r.t. Graves. Delavelle Fox l.g. r.g. Cook, Moody Turney e. c. Byshe Cushing. Foster. Hodges r.g. l.g. Moody, Cook Mulford. r.t. l.t. Ennis Allen. Lone r.e. l.e. Morton. Sears Beard. q.b. q.b. Pruyn Barbee l.h.b. r.h.b. F. Eaton Sack. Sawyer. Lane r.h.b. l.h.b. Norton Taft. Farnsworth f.b. f.b. S. Eaton
...Peter, Emperor of Muscovy, told the gentlemen of his court to shave off their beards. The commandment had a significance beyond the capillary, for the beards of the Russian nobles were copied from the men who lived to the Eastward; the monarch's bare chin was the outward and visible sign of his detestation of the Orient. A wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want...
Peter, called "The Great," died in his sullen city on the swamp. His beard then took its revenge and sprouted violently under the coffin lid; in time it, too, grew tired. Meanwhile the rug that had carried the forgiveness of Persia hung upon the wall of Leopold I, Sovereign under the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Hungary. Two weeks ago a Scotch art dealer landed in Manhattan. He had a trunk with him. The rug was in the trunk...