Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London firm. The top price of $88,920 was fetched by Frans Hals' Portrait of a Gentleman, 19 times what it cost in 1885 when it left the de Zoete collection. The Hals is 45¼ by 35¼ inches, and shows a noble standing figure with pointed beard, ruff, black costume and hat, yellow gloves. None of the pictures are likely to come to America, and in fact only about a dozen of them actually changed hands, as Sir Joseph bought the others in through agents. He is said to have had his collection in storage since...
...Stewart has just returned from Europe. He is now engaged in writing his jaded memories of that trip, most of which he spent in growing a beard, which, for the sake of those who admire his tall, lean face when smooth, I assure you he has now removed. In addition to his travel episodes, he is writing Aunt Polly's History of Mankind...
Angry antics from the Reds. Bombacci speechless with rage; waves arms, ruffles hair, pulls beard. Silence. Bombacci recovers power of speech: " You stand for barbarism, not civilization. You could not publish a Fascist newspaper in Moscow because there is a law against it? You Fascisti are guilty of having made a comic opera of revolution...
William Walcott, whose daring experiments, with color and impressionism in his pictures of ancient temples in Ephesus and Babylonia have caused a sensation in London art circles, is well known in the streets of London because of his long beard. Wherever he goes he is assailed with loud cries of "Beaver...
...feared that the Moslems in India would object to this sudden move, but a congress of Moslem religious teachers in Calcutta has wired approval to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, calling him the " Renovator of the Caliphate," and accepting the new status of the Caliph. The present Caliph's " holy beard" has just reached the length required for sultans, and was blessed with appropriate ceremonies last week...