Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beard grow...
...saints. At last a defender of the faith has been found--a crusade under the flag of "man and superman." But unfortunately for the contention of the bishop, there was buried last month--though not in Carolina--a lady whose sole attraction and main achievement had been a luxuriant beard...
...made what proved to be the fatal mistake of writing his plea in language that has just the slightest trace of Menckenesque presumption. "We have always thought of college as a spawning ground for individuals," he wrote, "for wrote, "for men who think. Better a radical with a beard and a bomb than a type--a goose-stepper--a man without brains enough or courage enough to declare himself...
...shepherd David, a pale boy staring at a man in armor; David the warrior, huge-thewed and falcon-hearted, marching before the armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
Died. Mme. Sidonia Barscy, 59, famed "bearded lady," veteran of countless sideshows and circuses, at Drummond, Okla., mourned by her only son, "Baron" Nicu Barscy, 40, famed midget, who is but 28 inches tall. Mme. Barscy possessed a heavy iron-grey beard some six inches long...