Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What Senator was jocularly known as 'Moses'??George Franklin Edmunds* of Vermont, because he had a shiny bald head, a wavy gray beard, long nose, and because he often led his party out of the wilderness of defeat...
...Holland since a certain memorable event in 1918, was reported to be "bored with life." To relieve his boredom singers sing German songs to him. Said Herr Bruno Voelcker, chanteur, after a recent visit to Doörn: "The Kaiser looks as stately as ever. His beard and moustache are white...
John is a tall man, with tawny hair and a Van Dyke beard, given to bright neckties and tweed suits. In speaking of artists he said: "I do not think that great artists or painters are the product of any combined effort in a people to produce a masterpiece. Great artists happen," Of himself, he said, "I am trying to carry on the traditions of English painting...
Last week came to the U. S. a funny-looking little man with a beard, named Abraham Isaac Kook. His visit may bring forth, for the benefit of the American Jew, as well as for the American Gentile, a more coherent account of this figure of speech, Zionism...
...Berlin and Friedrichshafen in south Germany on passenger-carrying service with almost clocklike regularity, claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years' piloting. In spite of his imperfect English, he was able a fortnight ago, tugging the while at his well-trimmed beard, to keep the attention of some 200 men- aeronautical students at New York University, Army and Navy men, and aviation enthusiasts generally-riveted on a lecture of more than two hours' duration. He has taken out his first papers, intends to make the U. S. his home, foresees here...