Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, the gaffers of the Royal Meteorological Society, impressed by the excellent observations he had been mailing in for three years, proffered Roger Cade a fellowship in the Society. Roger proved to be 14 years old. Anxious beard-wagging over the by-laws discovered no age limit at either end for Fellows, so Roger Cade was admitted...
Because of its hazards, few horses under seven years old are entered in the Maryland Hunt. Last week the favorites were Mrs. Read Beard's ten-year-old Blockade and John Strawbridge's ten-year-old Coq Bruyere, the two top timber-toppers in the U. S. Blockade, chestnut son of famed Man 0' War, had clipped seven seconds off the course record last year when he won the race in 8 min., 44 sec. Coq Bruyere, a grey, had been beaten only once in six timber races last year...
Died. Mme Clémentine Delait, 74, France's most famed bearded woman; in Epinal. Because her café, where she peddled picture post cards of herself (mustache, sideburns, foot-long beard), prospered, Mme Delait repeatedly spurned the overtures of importunate circus-owners...
...stories were to be told mainly in the first person; the results were to be judged on "accuracy, human interest, social importance, literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything I have ever read in fiction."), it gives the South its most pungent picture of common life, the Writers' Project its strongest claim to literary distinction...
...orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds in becoming so tough that he can lick Wallace Beery. Florence Rice appears as the owner of the state line, and provides the romantic element. However, our Bob has learned to put business before pleasure...