Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hebrew temple. Composer Bloch conducted the performance, given by the 250 choristers of the New York Schola Cantorum, 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony and Baritone Friedrich Schorr of the Metropolitan Opera who acted as cantor. Bloch appeared clean-shaven and smiling, changed much from the harassed-looking. black-bearded man whom New Yorkers remembered. But Bloch's strength had not gone with his beard. He spread his arms wide and the orchestra sounded quietly, richly. Then Baritone Schorr, whose father was a cantor, started to intone the Mali Tovu ("How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob"). The chorus...
...Switzerland has refreshed Bloch's musical powers, given him leisure to indulge his passion for mushroom-hunting, made him jovial. His gloomy look vanished with his beard, which he shaved off as a surprise for Suzanne when he met her in Genoa two summers...
...good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa...
...John Reeves Ellerman was one of the least publicized and richest men in the world. An impressive fellow with a great spade beard and a hawk nose, he owned and operated some half-dozen lines of steamers, besides great quantities of real estate and at one time a string of newspapers and a batch of London smart-charts. Living in an almost miserly simplicity, he was only a vague name to most Britons, despite his fat checks to British charities. His last charity occurred when he died in Dieppe last July, aged 71, leaving an estate...
...IDEA OF NATIONAL INTEREST-Charles A. Beard-Macmillan ($3.75). Survey of U. S. diplomacy by a first-rate analytical skeptic...