Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Case, 84, of Strongsville, Ohio was called "Santa Claus" for his long white beard, his practice of giving nickels to children at Christmas, and for the groves of Christmas trees he had planted and tended on his farm since boyhood. Each year he sent one of his tallest and best trees to decorate Cleveland's public square. This month The American Magazine wrote him up as an interesting American. Fame brought the world to William Case's evergreen groves: people who came at night and stole his trees by the truckload. One night last week he heard...
...HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS MAN- Miriam Beard-Macmillan...
...House trooped the Washington press corps, in response to a summons promising them "the greatest human interest story" in the six years of the Roosevelt Presidency. There they found Franklin Roosevelt, beaming but serious. He had just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest Lindley, and his literary handy man, Samuel I. Rosenman; Frank...
...What most worries the Man on the Street," replied my friend, "is a car coming around the corner. There are more women running for office than ever before. Feminism has grown a beard. Their slogan is, Put All the Males in the Post Office...
Arthur Curtiss James owns a famous beard and more railroad securities than any man in the U. S. Last week this second possession was substantially cut when the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a reorganization plan for Western Pacific R. R. Co. writing off all its capital stock; at last reports Mr. James through various holding companies owned 40% of the stock, an investment with a par value of about...