Word: beards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens had no particular notion that young John would ever amount to so much. To them he was just the painfully bashful Dewey boy who delivered papers after school. His father, the proprietor of a grocery store ("Hams & cigars: smoked and unsmoked"), was a courtly man with a flowing beard, who quoted Milton and Robert Burns, and told of bullets whistling through his hair during the Civil War ("I always thought that that was how he got bald," says Dewey...
...pageauation for "314" as drawn up by Feeney and the beard was an a skeleton pageanation to the two books nounced last night. And expanded House Section, treating the activities within each House individually, is the vehicle for recording and evaluating the College year for Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Also, an enlarged section dealing with undergraduate activities and organizations is designed to include everyone participating in the College's extra-curricular life...
Even if rotary traffic flunks the thirty day test, the Cambridge Planning Beard promises to try other measures. Constantly aware of the danger and annoyance that exist 12 hours a day just outside of Harvard Yard City Man ager Atkinson is at present considering new proposals...
Last week the Société des Amis d'Eugène Delacroix, which now rents the master's quiet Left Bank studio for exhibition purposes, was sputtering through its collective white spade beard about a brand-new horror. At year's end Delacroix' place would be up for sale, and rumor had it that a nightclub was dickering for the property. The Société felt that Delacroix, who had been a close friend of Chopin, would conceivably have found le jazz hot even weirder than the art of his modernist descendents...
After 14 years and countless breaks and reconciliations, Siri and August were divorced. He grew a Mephistophelean beard and devoted himself to the study of evil. He roamed about Europe, now trying to photograph the moon, now trying to make gold. He was interested in the Orient and Buddhism...