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Word: beards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman with a long white beard and brown dressing gown, dropping a festoon of red paper on a plaster foot and a jumble of wire, was stopping the sidewalk traffic on Philadelphia's busy Chestnut Street last week. He was in a window of Blum's department store, and across the street in Wanamaker's windows were some equally strange displays. Philadelphia's radio station KYW broadcast two haywire programs called "Love on Wheels" and "Love is a Dream," and Philadelphia's newspapers were filled with angry letters-to-the-editor. The answer was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philadelphia Program | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Last week jubilant British subjects were looking anxiously at their King's smooth chin. Word had gone round that His Majesty's Government in the person of Squire Baldwin had advised the King-Emperor to grow a beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grow a Beard | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Yellowstone Moran grew a magnificent beard and lived to be 89, dying in 1926 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He continued to paint until the day of his death, never changing his archaic, meticulous style, never losing his interest in the Far West and the National Park movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yellowstone Man | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Besides Viereck and Davidson, an undergraduate committee has been formed as the first editorial beard of the new publication, and a committee of faculty advisers, composed of Merle Fainsod, instructor in Government. John K. Galbraith, instructor in Economics, Arthur N. Rolcombe '06, professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'GUARDIAN,' SOCIAL SCIENCE MAGAZINE, WILL APPEAR SOON | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...septuagenarian's silky grey beard, spread over his hospital blanket, jerked each time he gasped the oxygen which an electric motor blew upon his face. Another midnight passed, and attendants of Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital left Aaron Handler, dying of heart disease, alone for a while. Then a dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fatal Gases | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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