Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York News has 1,600,000 daily circulation and the courage of its errors. It pours more ashes in its beard in a year than most other journals do in a generation. Last week the News was at it again. Postmaster General Farley had just announced that the Post Office had lost $46,614,723 in the year ending June 30, 1937. but had it not handled second-class mail (papers & periodicals) for a $89,148,809 loss it would have made...
...HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS MAN- Miriam Beard-Macmillan...
...dwarfs are seven, and their names are chiseled on their beds: Doc, who often gets his words and ideas mixed. Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Bashful and Dopey, who did not know if he could talk because he never tried. Squatty and bearded, looking much alike except for Dopey who, being younger, has no beard, the seven dwarfs have timid hearts: they know Snow White is the Queen's step-daughter and will not keep her till she promises to make gooseberry pie. Snow White will not let them eat until they wash their hands...
...name on the window of the establishment and beheld the inscription: "IVY CORSET SHOPPE." Frankly, the name stumped us. Ivy is a beautiful plant, and corsets make women more beautiful. Was this the relation the Shoppe was trying to imply, we wondered? We fingered a two-day beard, feeling very masculine, slightly superior, but still very puzzled...
...grim fight of determined men against howling Arctic weather, flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath...