Word: beards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light wines. Perhaps if they saw more of the English and American plays that are written about them they would be neither so polite nor so gay. At any rate, in most American drama, the French male character who is old enough to have a crêpe-beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet curtains, he devotes himself to lamenting the vanished glories of his ancestral chateau...
...Beard of Pennsylvania sprang the surprise of the afternoon when he overcame Pfaffman, 6-3, 6-4. Beard was again fortunate when he and Moran scored Pennsylvania's second point by defeating Briggs and Dixon...
...slaving at shaving,--Such habit depraving,--Not for me. A full beard and flowing On my chin is growing Plain...
...person, he was short and rugged. His square white beard made him look " like the work of a cubist sculptor." He was little given to making speeches, but when he spoke his words were blunt, honest and logical. His manner and his habits were simple and old fashioned. It is recorded that for many years after he came into prominence Mrs. Nelson used to have the floors of their home sanded...
Baron Goto: "I intend to see the Beard program through to completion." This is taken by most people to mean that it will be done. Able, active Goto is often called the "Roosevelt of Japan...