Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smooth olive skin, enormous brown eyes, a close black beard and hennaed locks carefully plaited distinguish Emir Abdullah of Transjordania. Annoyed by torrid questions put to him by one of the few U. S. women he has ever received, His Highness answered coldly...
Some 30 years ago left-handed Auguste Piccard, gangling, mischievous Munich student, had a barber-shop shave, bet the barber that "his whiskers grew faster than any others in the world." Shortly after "he" reappeared at the barber's with an eighth-inch beard. The flabbergasted barber shaved, learned later that "he" was Jean, Auguste's right-handed twin. Last week as he waited for redoubtable Professor Auguste Piccard's ship to come into New York Harbor, Jean Piccard, who until last year was a Hercules Powder Co. chemist and lives at Marshalltown, Del., voiced some cogent...
...publishing houses squabble. Harper's, dignified for 100 years, thought its ABC of Technocracy the last word on the subject. John Day was banking on Stuart Chase's "interpretation." The Angelus Press published Towards Technocracy by Graham A. Laing of Caltech, with an introduction by Charles A. Beard. Viking dashed out Life in a Technocracy by Harold Loeb...
...last that caused critics' mouths to drop. Louis Eilshemius is a little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and the butt of a frayed cigar, who is known as New York's most persistent exhibition visitor. He is one of the most persistent newspaper letter writers in the country. Not long ago he adopted the title Mahatma (Great Soul) and has spent a small fortune printing little pamphlets and books to prove that he is the greatest painter, poet, musician and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer" in the world. He has also invented a portable piano...
Held in St. Louis for possession of $20,000 in bonds believed stolen was famed, suave Swindler "Yellow Kid" Weil, 54. Asked what had become of his beard, he replied: "Gone since 1918. It was like this. With that yellow-red beard that got me my name, I looked just like J. Ham [Hamilton] Lewis, the Senator from Illinois. . . . Sometimes it caused complications for me and, I suppose, for him, too. So I did the handsome thing...