Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Rev. Dr. Augustus Field Beard, 99, oldest living graduate of Yale ('57) and of Union Theological Seminary, oldest living minister of the Congregational and Christian churches; Bishop William T. Manning, 66; Henry Latham Doherty...
...obvious attempt to disguise his delivery from the pitching berth, the president of the funsters beard down on the first CRIMSON batters without success. The executive board of the pressmen met the tosses of the Lampoon hurler with increasing vigor, and despite the fact that the bases were loaded, the baselines crowded with short stuttered humorists, CRIMSON runners were able to reach the bases safely each time. The referees, handicapped in their work by the constant orientation of play, did, however, reach the scene of action occasionally in time to penalize the losing team for holding, and for pilling...
...leader of India's Noncooperative Movement, planned secretly to marry a Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, 25-year-old divorced wife of an Irish officer. His son, Zahid Ahmed learned of the plan, rushed to the officiating priest, brandished a knife, threatened to hack off the priest's beard (greatest possible indignity to a Moslem ) if the ceremony was performed. The trembling priest stopped the marriage. That afternoon determined Shaukat Ali got a braver priest, an armed guard, his bride...
...show U. S. painting. As early as 1873 Newman Emerson Montross set aside a room for it back of his Manhattan paint store, but the Macbeth Gallery was indisputably the first to sell nothing but U. S. art. William Macbeth, a quiet little Irishman with a soft brown beard, arrived in the U. S. in 1871 and entered the art firm of Frederick Keppel &; Co. In 1892 he left to start his own gallery of U. S. art. It was a lean time for U. S. painters. Fifteen years earlier the magnificos of the Reconstruction Era used...
...with eight feet of free space behind each. Most of the contestants wore leather-soled shoes because rubber ones gripped the carpet and made it slide. They wore blue shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm of hollow hail, interrupted by happy squeals of "Good shot!" and "Beauty!" or disappointed...