Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Dr. Augustus Field Beard, oldest U. S. Congregational minister, active in Manhattan and his home, Norwalk, Conn. Age: 97. Date: May 11. Last fortnight his brother, Edwin Beard, 92, was elected president of the South Norwalk Savings Bank, succeeding the late Alden Solmans, who died at 95, oldest active U. S. bank president...
...lovable ancient, now exceedingly poor, is considered by many in the village to have been the best character actor that Oberammergau ever had. His was naturally a Judas face. Because his spirit was quite otherwise, he used to rehearse his part by walking about town, mumbling imprecations in his beard against the Christ until he almost believed them, became suicidally inclined. It has long been Johann Zwink's great desire that his son might succeed him. But the son is given to carousals and balladry unbecoming a Passion Player...
...banker must have a spade beard; it gives the public confidence. -French Axiom...
...Pierre Quesnay is the enfant terrible of the sedate Bank of France. He is only 35. He refuses to grow a beard. Among his hirsute colleagues the rise of this "boy" is considered almost a scandal. In Basle, Switzerland, last week the august board of the new Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), formed as "The Cash Register of German Reparations" (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.), solemnly met and all but unanimously elected Beardless Pierre Quesnay to be general manager of the bank...
...reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...