Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to making the nominations the Student Council beard the reports of several committees, ratified the action of the Executive Committee in approving the Union nominations, and recommended to the Athletic Committee the award of letters to the wrestling team. The Council also decided that hereafter recommendations for letter awards shall go from the manager (in case of a major sport team) and from the Minor Sports council (in case of a minor sport) directly to the Athletic Committee. However, the Council made it entirely plain by its resolution that it entirely reserved the right to consider the award...
Went a Paris newspaperman all the way to Vendée to beard "the Tiger" (ex-Premier Clemenceau) in his jungle...
...Spazzums" Tricycles, Deferential Dukes The Story. Despite his flat, black, curly beard, which gave him the appearance of an Assyrian bas-relief, Mr. Heath started out in life as headmaster of a typical English parish school at South Barnet. He invested in a tricycle, to facilitate his trips from home to school. And he might have tricycled himself and his numerous family right out of this story, had it not been for his "accident." The tricycle hit a rock one day, gave him a nervous breakdown from which, according to himself, he never recovered. From the day of the accident...
...attention was drawn to the importance of the glands, and particularly those concerned with procreation, while I was surgeon to the Khedive of Egypt. There were as many as 60 eunuchs about the palace. They had neither beard nor moustaches; their cheeks were pendent; obesity was very marked. They had that appearance of senility at a very early age. One of them who died at 45 looked like a man of 90. It demonstrated a fact now well known, that the male glands are not occupied entirely with procreation; they have one secretion for that purpose and another which puts...
...Moscow, it was announced that one Victor, aged four years, ten months, son of a Vladivostok doctor, 'has a full beard, can throw a man in a wrestling match, can choke his small companions black in the face, puzzles professors...