Word: beards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thrived on a land-grant opportunity to struggle upward, Big Men on Campus who scorned study but succeeded by using college to form useful, lifelong friends. What is distinctive about American students today, says Kenistoji, is not the beats and the draft-card burners, whose revolutionism is only beard-deep, but a new breed of "professionalists." They are the "academically committed young men and women, who value technological, intellectual and professional competence above popularity, ambition or grace." The professionalist is not a status seeker, for he has already arrived. He prizes "the expertness of the man rather than...
...scene is a sunbathed sugar-cane field 18 miles south of Camagüey. The Prime Minister of the republic is wearing fatigue pants, gloves, a sweaty, long-sleeved shirt and a sloppy sombrero. He is perspiring copiously and his beard is dripping. He slashes right and left at the stalks with a shiny machete as a Cuban radio reporter approaches with microphone in hand...
...whom he adored and once described as "my pocket Rubens." He slyly made sport of pestering strangers by extravagantly praising something they wore. He was also a hypochondriac, forever lugging around samples of his urine. He was convinced that he had skin cancer (his own diagnosis), and grew his beard to cover the white scaling on his face...
...note, Republican Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln wrote back to Grace in October 1860: "As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?" Affection or not, Lincoln grew the beard and won the election. His note to Grace survived through three generations in her family, until it was sold at auction last week in Manhattan for $20,000 to TV Documentary Producer David Wolper...
...Service, and interviewed by newsmen, by his count, "more than 5,000" times. The body of literature devoted to his life and exploits runs to perhaps 2,000,000 words of prose and 200 of poetry, chock-full of such fascinating revelations as that he sleeps naked, trims his beard with fingernail scissors, has an IQ of 127 and hates the nickname "Wilt the Stilt." No one has seemed able to agree on two fairly important and somewhat related points about Wilt Chamberlain: 1) how tall he is, and 2) how good...