Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary wife, Evelyn Atwater, whom he married 18 years ago. Most Episcopalians are unsympathetic with Dr. Cummins' notions, unimpressed by the horrors he cries up. But they read the "Chronic Hell" with delight, enjoying the loving care with which copes & mitres, red zucchettas, masses, rosaries and the beard of King Charles I are castigated.* Some bishops apprehensively toe the Protestant line when Dr. Cummins, on one of his many preaching excursions, appears in their dioceses...
...Venerated as a Defender of the Faith, King Charles has often been regarded as a Church of England saint. Some years ago the Holy Cross monks (Episcopal) in St. Andrews, Tenn., held a service in which a hair from King Charles's beard was exhibited on a pillow. The Chronicle called it a "hirsute comedy...
...right to indulge itself in habits that have grown up with the years, habits that have become traditions, habits that, perhaps, have lost all trace of their original reason. More than any other college in America, that aged seat of learning is justified in stroking its long grey beard, settling back in its easy chair, looking out over the City of Boston, and exasperating moderns by its antique idiosyncrasies, such as, for example, the ringing of the seven o'clock bell to summon bleary-eyed undergraduates to a compulsory chapel that has been dead these fifty years...
...drum tells him that Catherine's head has rolled off the block, Henry is alone. More from force of habit than anything else, he takes one more wife, Catherine Parr, his children's nurse. She wraps him in blankets, looks disgusted when he dribbles in his beard...
...owners in a bag. Once (in reality, three times, says Biographer Woolf in a note) Flush was so kidnapped by these racketeers. Everybody, including Mr. Browning, advised Miss Barrett to refuse to pay ransom, sacrifice Flush on the altar of law & order. Miss Barrett indignantly refused, went herself to beard the chief racketeer in his den, finally got Flush back at an exorbitant price...