Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gladhander, he stayed most of the time in his little white house, only emerging to campaign, to tell the public that he was going to take the wild beast of greed by the beard; that EPIC
...Bagdad, other Oriental Institute diggers turned up stone statues of the "Lord of Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...
Honest Inquiry Sirs: When my father was a cub reporter, his first assignment was to beard the testy superintendent of a city hospital to ask if it were true that a patient had recently been put to death for experimental purposes. In the same spirit of honest inquiry-and with perhaps as little tact-I would like to ask if TIME does not sometimes doctor its photographs in order to obtain humorous results. . . . The July 9 issue, under "Germany," carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead...
Suddenly the clouds broke and M. Barthou, his beard bright with smiles, gave a dinner which turned out to be a love feast. Haggard old "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was shoved into obscurity, his plan dropped. Agreement was then reached on three points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work...
...Slow Train Through Arkansas described the vicissitudes of a traveler who, clean-shaven at the beginning of an Arkansas train ride, had a full-grown beard at the trip's end. He explained he did not want to get off and walk because his family did not expect him until the train got in. Another traveler tried to commit suicide by lying on the tracks in front of the train, starved to death before the locomotive reached...