Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with upraised chair in one hand, menacing clasp-knife in the other. Two years later he was expelled for his pranks, went to Boston and passed his bar examination. The Harvard faculty invited him back. "Go to hell!" was his booming défi. He grew a long black beard, practised law. At 36 he was president of the Massachusetts Senate. He became Attorney General in 1891, and in that year accepted Harvard's honorary A.M. degree...
Engaged. Pierre Lorillard, Manhattan and Tuxedo, N. Y. socialite, son of the late Pierre Lorillard who founded P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and Tuxedo Park; and Mrs. Ruth Hill Beard, relict of Anson McCook Beard, daughter of the late President James Jerome Hill of Great Northern Railroad...
...ardent patriot of the Free State, is naturally an interesting speaker. Russell's charming Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader of the Irish Renaissance. His flowing beard and imposing personality might suggest to many that he was the "Walt Whitman of Iceland." Different as the poetry of the two men is, they both have much the same magnetism and appeal. Many who are already becoming bored with too much reading period in Widener may well find some worthwhile...
Ralph Merritt, one of the grapemen, last week declared: "We believe this program ... is of material assistance to the Government in enforcing Prohibition." Charles Collins Teague, a member of the Farm Beard, agreed. Dramatic color was lent their view when many a newspaper, particularly in California, reported that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, No. i U. S. gangster, had issued a threat of death to any Chicago druggist or grocer who accepted a Fruit Industries agency. The Los Angeles Examiner said Capone was incognito in its city, presumably to discuss his new competition at its source. Chicago is the next market...
...Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...