Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Caillaux, Finance Minister boarded a train in Paris attended only by his secretary. He was going single-handed to beard the English lion in its den. Particularly he was going to talk over the chequered table with Mr. Churchill...
...Thomas Lipton, gallant yachtsman with the barnacle beard whose toast is drunk in 5,000,000 cups of tea, is a sportsman who has made an enormous reputation for his tea by knowing how to be beaten. Last week, in the famed Shamrock IV, he heard a pistol crack and scurried past a buoy at Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry...
...Kenneth C. M. Sills, was elected at the age of 38. Bowdoin College since its foundation in 1794 has had but eight presidents. The average age at the time of election was just 39. If we still think that a college president ought to have the flowing patriarchal beard, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Jesse Appleton was elected president of Bowdoin in 1807 at the age of 35; Dr. William Allen, his successor, was elected in 1819 at the age of 36; and Dr. Leonard Woods, who succeeded Dr. Allen, was elected...
...famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their Art to the Master; of the beer profiteers at the Festspiel-hauser; of the shaggy, the swollen little man, lying on his back in the garden, with earth in his beard and the roots of flowers in his eyes-thinking...
...Significance. "What pleasure," asked "the last of the French giants," of his secretary, "can you find in picking up the careless words that trickle down my old beard?" The secretary knew what Florianet and the Abbé Ledieu (French Boswells) had done for their masters, Voltaire and Bossuet. The formal biographers, already marshaling facts, will come here to make their pictures mobile...