Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alienate Britain with his ship-building program in the years before the War. More important, his ceaseless insistence on ruthless, unrestricted submarine warfare was the direct cause of the U.S. entry on the side of the allies. Yet for 20 years the commanding gentleman with the white forked beard was a German figure second in popular familiarity only to that of the Kaiser himself. (Almost unknown until 1916 was grave, grizzled Paul von Hindenburg, general of division...
...protecting the Egyptians . . . guard them against the inevitable tyranny of the Pashas!" Verdict: Pink-and-White has a tongue of talent, should prove a useful "regular" to the conservatives, seems to be the exact antithesis of Oliver Baldwin (son of Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin) who has grown a beard, turned Socialist...
...high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering as the aged philosopher. Transformed by Mephistopheles, stripped of his old-man's robe and shorn of beard and matted wig, he revealed unromantic jowls above a figure sadly heavy for his 38 years. Thereupon he proceeded with an impersonation of the love-struck cavalier which, if well-routined, had little to distinguish it from a dozen others...
Topaze is a graceful and ever so Gallic play about graft in which the characters bear such names as Castel-Benac, Tronche-Bobine and Pitart-Vignolles, and act accordingly. It is the wistful, pathetic, ludicrous history of M. Topaze, a sad-eyed French schoolmaster with a beard, who was ousted from his classroom because he persisted in telling a wealthy parent the truth about her repulsive and boobish child. Not that M. Topaze objected to offering flattery-he was merely too simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which...
...Here is a Masterpiece, Charles and Mary Beard paint for us a panorama of America from its misty beginnings in Europe down to our own day . . . and what an overwhelming panorama it is!"--Henry K. Norton...