Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banker with the Mephistophelian beard, Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England, wrote a private letter to Governor Clément Moret of the Bank of France several months...
Bald-headed Raymond Poincare's bristling white moustache and beard parted in a great smile last week as he moved about his country home Le Clos at Sampigny in the Department of the Meuse. For a long while he had been ill, but this, this news from Paris, was enough to make any man well! He had achieved the ambition of his lifetime, which was not to be called M. le President de Republique (as he had been), nor M. le President de Conseil (he had been that, also), but M. le Boutonnier des Avocats de France...
...Politburo, horse-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, and Michael Tomsky called down the Steel Man's wrath as members of the "right heretics" who refused to cooperate whole heartedly in the Five-Year Plan. Last week found a chastened, subdued Nicolai Bukharin in London stroking a red beard, humbly explaining the new policies of VOZHD to British newshawks. Said...
...unofficially surpassed the world's record for 100 yd. (9.5 sec.), who has not been beaten in four major meets this year; Patrick J. McDonald. 52-year-old, 350-lb. Manhattan policeman who handles a 35-lb. weight as though it were a toy balloon; Percy Beard, a 23-year-old instructor in engineering at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost...
Tinea is the technical name for ringworm. It is caused by varieties of a fungus called Trichophyton which gets into the skin. Various trichophyta affect the scalp or beard (causing patchy baldness), the torso, arms and legs (where the infection usually takes the form of a ring), the fingers, toes and the interdigital folds, the nails. The feet and hands are the most common sites of infection. Small blisters form and the skin erodes. W. F. Young Inc. of Springfield, Mass., makers of the proprietary germicide Absorbine Jr., taking a lesson from Listerine's Halitosis and Life Buoy Soap...