Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Ritter Beard has spent much of her life writing U. S. history, notably The Rise of American Civilization in collaboration with her famed husband, Charles Austin Beard. In Washington last week U. S. history in the making touched Author Beard when the Senate sat to try the 13th Federal impeachment in Congress' 147 years. The defendant: Mrs. Beard's brother, Federal District Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Florida...
Haile Selassie and an Ethiopian Army of nearly 45,000 men were at Quoram, on the route south from Aduwa. Ethiopia's Emperor stroked his silky black beard and picked Choice No. 1. Attacking with his European-trained bodyguard of 20,000 men, he headed straight for the Italian position on formidable...
Camille Pissarro never made much money. If he got $500 for a canvas he thought he was doing well. Fame came to him late in life. With a beard every bit as large and white as that of his friend Monet, and evening clothes of black velvet, he was idolized by young Bohemians of the 1890's, loved to preside at the Impressionists' monthly dinners in the café Riche. He died Nov. 13, 1903 of an abscessed prostate gland...
Sniper Counts sat down, the superintendents cheered and Hearst editors gloated over an old photograph showing Dr. Counts with a scraggly black beard which he affected for a time after returning from study in Russia...
Featuring the exhibition is a self portrait in the lower room of the museum. Bristling quince-colored hair, streaked with light, is brushed back en brosse into a stippled green background. The face has a yellow tinge, the eyes are disdainful and cold above an astonishing fiery red beard. It is not hard to imagine the possessor of such features racing helter-skelter through life and at last landing in an insane asylum...