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...large, heavyset, clean-shaven, with big hands and feet, a thick neck. His nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush of a beard. Gustav Dore gave him a waist-long mare's tail beard.- But beard critics said that the shaving command was conclusive proof that Ezekiel was smooth-shaven at the time he was doing his best prophesying. Since Ezekiel kept his standing as the Lord's prophet for many years afterward, he must have obeyed the Lord's command. The case of the beard defenders was that, while the shaving order implied the existence of Ezekiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nebraskans v. Beard | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...always bounces out of the wings, a square, bullet-headed man, smooth shaven except for a tiny marceled patch where his fontanel was 30 years ago. He brandishes his trumpet. He gives a roguish grin. His eyes roll around in his head like white, three-penny marbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Rascal | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Hero Ma | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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