Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metropolitan--"Blue Beard's Seven Wives" with Blanche Sweet, Lois Wilson, and Ben Lyon...
...Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork he almost broke down. Then the American Medical Association and other regular societies pitched on him, lambasted him, almost kept him from getting his license to practice in New York. Already, in 1902, Illinois had permitted him to practice...
There were many comings and goings about the White House. Charles E. Hughes dropped in for luncheon. His beard looked familiar. Elihu Root came for luncheon the day after. His statesmanlike features were just as familiar there a few years ago. Secretary Kellogg lunched there the same day. Next day Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Moses and Senator Lenroot came to call. Newspaper men came and went in small flocks. It was plain that something was brewing, and that it was not beef...
...Sphinx's Egyptian beard, which descended from the chin to the chest, disappeared centuries ago; and its loss threw a tremendous strain on the neck. Now the back and sides of the neck have been worn away by the erosion of time and there is danger that the head may topple off. At present the head leans slightly forward, but its weight has been eased by the breaking off of large parts of the headdress...
...Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm...