Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democratic Britain and France were reported trying to get Democrat Davis to wend his appeasing way to Berlin and Rome, beard Hitler and Mussolini with blandishments. The Paris newspundit Pertinax suggested that the Great Powers might succeed if President Roosevelt would find a way to permit Germany and Italy to borrow hugely in return for agreements by Berlin and Rome to cease arriving and give concessions "such as to involve the practical disappearance of Hitlerism and Fascism"-this being Pertinax'?, sly way of saying that Mr. Davis faces the supreme challenge to his optimism. In London David Lloyd George...
...such bounteous dinners of venison, flapjacks and trout that the lodge grew into an immense rambling structure with 216 rooms. It had such guests as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Mark Twain, Grover Cleveland, Edward H. Harriman. When Paul Smith, an alert, erect oldster of 87 with snowy hair, a Vandyke beard and broad-brimmed hat, died in 1912 he left his three sons the largest estate in Franklin County...
With the passing of Mr. Rogers, a colorful figure departs from the gala Harvard commencement picture. He attended practically every graduation exercises, except when in ill health, and his cane and white beard were familiar June sights as he proudly led the alumni procession on such occasions. Only by a scant day did he outlive John T. Morse, '60, aged 97, second oldest alumnus, who died Saturday at his home in Needham. Thus the honor position in the procession now passes to John Kittredge Browne, '69, of Chicago. But moderate Mr. Rogers will not soon be forgotten as typifying...
...Result of the preview was that the Committee banned the picture as "inartistic and politically bankrupt." Main sin of Director Eisenstein seemed to have been that he "confused the class struggle with the struggle between good and evil." Further Eisenstein faults were showing a collective campaigner with "an enormous beard and the manner of a Biblical Saint," showing the hero with a halo around his head...
Academy Awards are gold-plated statuets nicknamed Oscars. Oscar for the 1936 best performance by an actor went last week to Paul Muni, who attended the banquet wearing the beard he used in his forthcoming The Woman I Love. The award was for his work in the title role of The Story of Louis Pasteur. Screenwriters Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Collings, who wrote and adapted The Story of Louis Pasteur, got two Oscars, for the best original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra...