Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
Engineer Strauss & staff declare that the bridge could stand a 'quake twice as bad as the 1906 one, plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would...
Giuliano, Due de Nemours was a peace-loving Medici with pensive eyes and a stubby beard, not to be compared, however, with his potent father, Lorenzo the Magnificent. But Giuliano had his picture painted by Raphael once. That picture, once the property of Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, was bought by Manhattan Stockbroker Jules Semon Bache...
...Berlin he little suspected it was the last time he would grasp a baton. His friend Joachim, the famous protege of Mendelssohn, gave a dinner for him before the performance. By now he showed many marks of age; his much-admired "St. John's head" and his full white beard combined to make him quite leonine. Children, whom he said he loved better than adults, called him "the little round gentleman." He preferred old clothes, hated stiff collars and all ties, and felt constrained in dress shirts. Especially did he detest fame and the limelight...
...last two years a young Greek-American has been astounding Europe with his proficiency on the flute. People looking at his trim beard and heavy, horn-rimmed glasses can hardly believe that Lambros Demetrios Callimahos is only 26. People hearing him pipe harmonics and flying chromatic scales think he must be twice that age to have mastered such a clean technique. Yet young Callimahos never bothered with the instrument till he was 14, when somebody gave him a tin whistle. Callimahos went on to a flute, played it all through high school in Asbury Park, N. J. where...