Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard. . . ." (Ezekiel v, i.) But the Biblical record failed to specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush...
Both statesmen are tireless pipe puffers. While Mr. Baldwin puffed Mr. Thomas let his pipe grow cold, speaking volubly of how the world crisis had grown worse & worse "until the down and out spirit became prevalent in the minds of many people...
...from Mukden and the Chinese Press screeched, "Invasion!" Meanwhile at Tokyo the bespectacled Son-of-Heaven addressed a little homily on sheep-raising to the Governors of Japanese provinces. Referring to Japan's huge imports of wool from Australia, His Majesty ventured to suggest that "Japanese themselves should grow more sheep." He also spoke highly of growing apples...
...Frederick Herendeen; Charles H. Abramson and Jess Smith, producers). In a lonely house in Florida's Everglades a demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm...