Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beard grow...
...time seems to have come when the promise of publication can force odd follies from the lips of churchmen. Advising the male delegates at a diocesian conference of the Methodist Church to grow mustaches as the final gesture of a masculinity truncated by the fell strokes of female fashion, Bishop Collirs Denny remarked, "That's all the women have left us. They cut their hair and wear men's clothes, but they can't wear a mustache. It is your badge of masculinity...
Said he, according to reports by his fellow diners: "A bit of propaganda may often grow far beyond its original purpose and get completely out of control. For example, take the story to the effect that during the War Germany boiled down the bodies of her dead soldiers to utilize the resultant fat for fertilizer. That story was released and grew as follows...
...Government is not yet strong enough to administer a tax which the various Tuchuns would be only too quick to seize for themselves if Britain were not there to stop them. The U. S. has generally taken the attitude that China must be given tariff autonomy before she can "grow up" out of her present weakness. Japan claims, apparently with supporting documents, that Imperial China granted the right to administer her customs "to the foreign power whose trade with China is greatest." And Japan now asserts that Japanese trade with China is heavier than British, and wants Britain to turn...
Each year there is a season of mystical nuptials. The population of He des Dames multiplies apace. With Phaon growing into a handsome youth, and in view of certain semi-authenticated episodes, Anni Prachtel and a few cynics remain dubious of the annual parthenogenesis. But they preserve the myth, and five years after the first crop of childen, the virgin mothers feel so self-sufficient that the disposal of male offsprings is an issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland...