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Biscuits & Spirits. "John Brown was thirty-five, with red-gold hair and beard and a precisely shaven upper lip, handsome in a big, scrubbed, leathery sort of Highland way. His eyes were remarkable, fierce and kindly, gentle and naming: but who among the aristocratic Household noticed the eyes of a kilted crofter, faintly odoriferous no doubt of sweat, who lived among the grooms...
...only to show up in his reception room. Writes Hyman: "Stanton personified force and competence as he stood behind the tall desk, looking each visitor squarely, almost defiantly, in the eye, his wide forehead flushed, his complexion dark and mottled, his lips compressed above his immense black beard, which gave off a mixed odor of tobacco and cologne...
...Tigertail Road in Brentwood, Calif., on something that young Jane Fonda now describes as a farm. This is like claiming to have been brought up on a ranch on Park Avenue. But as Jane remembers it. Pa Fonda used to stomp around the property in sideburns or a beard, achinnin' with the other farmers-John Ford, Jimmy Stewart. John Wayne and so on. All the while, the kids was ferever play-actin', pretendin' they was Buck the Buffalo Herder, or Sheena. Queen of the Jungle. "Sometimes we did improvisations with our governesses.'' recalls young Peter...
According to hopeful rumors and guesses, the Russians were about ready to abandon old Spitzbart (pointed beard), who is hated for his brutal methods and slavish subservience to Moscow, and replace him with someone more palatable. Runs the argument: now that the Wall is up to prevent major population leakage, Moscow might well be prepared to strengthen its satellite by trying a softer approach with the stubborn, restive East German people. Ulbricht's party organ, Neues Deutschland, noted the rumors of a Khrushchev-Ulbricht rift by elaborately denying...
According to the rules of iconography, St. Peter is an old man with thick, white, curly hair and a round, white beard; he wears "a joyous and simple expression." St. John the Evangelist, although sometimes shown as a beardless youth with dark hair, is usually pictured as he was at the end of his life: tufts of white hair bordering a bald head, a long white beard, a beatific smile. His brother James is traditionally shown as a young man; he has thick brown hair, receding slightly at two points, and a short, fringelike beard, much like Christ...