Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affiliated with Transamerica. The cosmopolitan Behn Brothers were born on the tiny West Indian island of St. Thomas, Sosthenes in 1882, Hernand in 1880. Both were schooled in Corsica and Paris. Sosthenes, the more aggressive of the two, went to Manhattan at the start of the century, grew a beard to look older than he was, went into the foreign banking trade. In 1906 both brothers took over their stepfather's Porto Rican sugar plantation. When the Porto Rico Telephone Co. fell into the hands of a friend who had accepted it in payment of a bad debt...
Birthdays. Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis (81), Daniel Carter Beard (Si). Ernestine Schumann-Heink (70). James John Walker (50), Edward Prince of Wales (37), Mrs. Anne Morrow Lind bergh (25), Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...royal right hand was a heavy whip. With the royal left His Majesty seized the priest by his beard, dragged him from the pulpit, flung him screaming on the flagstones. Lash after lash, lash after lash, lash after lash. . . . The priest at length ceased to scream, fainted, lay as though dead. To the faithful His Majesty then stated that Her Majesty never lifts her vail in public, thereupon strode from the mosque with clinking spurs while fellow priests revived the flogged zealot...
Howard Abell 1L, A. S. Armstrong, Jr. '32, P. H. Bates '33, J. H. Beard '34, J. T. Blackwell '34, B. B. Buckingham '33, H. M. Daft '34, R. H. Dana '34, J. T. Dennison '34, David Ennis '32, E. H. Fiske '34, Elwood Gaskill 1G, J. H. Gaul '32, W. H. Goodson, Jr. GM. A. L. Gordon...
WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...