Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scripps, like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained...
...respect the offices fail as a reflection of their occupants. One would think, especially after seeing the beard, that Publisher Scripps is the older man. He is 35 to Howard...
...beard has earned for Bob Scripps a good deal of raillery, which he quietly relishes. Driving across the U. S.,* he says, he one day neglected to shave. For amusement he "let it grow," toyed with it from week to week. Amusement it may have been at the start; but the beard is now becoming part of the grave, punditical figure which Publisher Scripps suggests as he pens learned treatises on economics. Once more the organization is getting an Old Man. Something in the atmosphere of the Scripps-Howard offices suggests that this was necessary, that the subordinates feel that...
...have to pay the $10 reward. He had written in the Ithaca Journal-News: "I love my hat as a little girl loves her doll. Please return my hat." He explained how he had acquired it: At Oxford last summer he saw an old man with a long white beard wearing just such a hat. He wanted one like it, hunted a long time, bought one at last in Edinburgh for 16 shillings...
Epee: Righeimer defeated Wesselman, 1-0; Cassidy 1-0; Ludlam, 1-0; Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Ludlam defeated Wesselman, 1-0; Cassidy, 1-0; Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Wesselman defeated Cassidy, 1-0; Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Cassidy defeated Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Dyer defeated Beard...