Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great age and snowy beard of Sergius did not save him from figuring in Pravda and Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...
Charles Austin Beard is a tall, lean, deaf, white-haired, Indiana-born Yankee with a piercing eye, a commanding presence and a gruff voice. For 25 of his 63 years he has been a powerful influence among U. S. historians by virtue of works like Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. His wife Mary, who collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization, is a historian in her own right (A Short History of the American Labor Movement), a lecturer, a champion of women's rights. His son William published his first book, Create the Wealth, in 1936. Last...
...farmhouses in the hills of Connecticut, the Beards turn out their fat, factual pamphlets on governments, armies, women and businessmen. In a huge, drab, wooden building that was once a boys' school, Charles and Mary Beard, now engaged on a history of the past ten years, live in virtual retirement with no telephone or radio. But each winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have...
...second half, more heavily documented, is slower going. Here, except for a brilliant account of U. S. town-building, Miriam Beard's contribution is to compare the achievements of Vanderbilt, Gould, Morgan, Rockefeller with those of Fugger, Colbert, or the Bickers of Holland; to measure familiar swindles and honest accomplishments against ancient examples. U. S. millionaires compare well in both respects with their predecessors. Squelched at first by the landed gentry, then by Southern aristocrats, U. S. businessmen wielded their power openly only for a brief period after the Civil War, until their corporations grew so vast that "like...
Like her parents' Rise of American Civilization, like her husband's History of Militarism, Miriam Beard's book ends inconclusively. The composite businessman who emerges from its cluster of facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never...