Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FOOTBALL TEAM. SURVEY OF COLGATE FACULTY REVEALS SEVEN BEARDISTS AND TWENTY-ONE MUSTACHERS AMONG ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS. PROMINENT BEARDISTS ARE WILLIAM HENRY CRAWSHAW, DONALD ANDERSON LAIRD, ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM, JOSEPH FRANK MCGREGORY. NO BEARDIST SINCE HIS COLLEGE DAYS, ACADIA-TRAINED PRESIDENT CUTTEN HAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF FIVE CLEAN-SHAVEN, EIGHT MUSTACHERS AND ONE BEARDIST...
...Hero Ma. He looks almost exactly like the late, great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin under whom he learned to fight. Like Marshal Chang's mustache, the mustache of General Ma is thin, black and drooping. Like Chang's head. Ma's head is closely shaven, glistens. As small Marshal Chang used to be small General Ma is the terror of a General Staff composed exclusively of tall, strapping, exceedingly respectful Chinese officers. They bent their large bodies over staff maps last week while General Ma in silken house slippers but wearing a fur-collared military...
Last week nine Communists were on trial in Toronto charged with "unlawful conspiracy and sedition." They jumped in their seats when their old friend "E. W. Esselwein" entered to give testimony, once more clean shaven and buttoned into the scarlet tunic of Sergeant Leonard...
...Lloyd shares. By the time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner and one cabin ship a week between New York and Germany, built the S. S. Columbus, Bremen and Europa, fastest liner afloat. Pudgy, shaven-polled, Herr Direktor Stimming was loved & feared by his employes. He traveled always across the Atlantic on ships of competing lines so that he might watch their methods. To rationalize German shipping, he arranged mergers of small lines, finally concluded a pooling agreement with the Hamburg-American Line...
...fame through a series of farces by Avery Hopwood (Fair & Warmer, Up In Mabel's Room, Getting Gertie's Garter) that caused the reformers of a decade ago to cry shrilly for the police. But Al Woods has innumerable friends. Notably sloppy in his dress, generally ill-shaven, he calls everybody, male or female, "Sweetheart" with the exception of his friend George Bernard Shaw whom he addresses as "Buddy...