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Tall, heavy, clean-shaven, jowly, with little green eyes, big ears, big nose, petulant mouth, John Wanamaker's expression was called "cherubic-at times." Weak as a boy, he lived to be 84; though he took little exercise after he was 45, one day when he was 80 he caught 148 fish. In national politics an unfailing Republican, in local politics he was an independent. "His farewell handshake was courtesy and geniality itself, at the same time it was a gentle push toward the door...
...appearance he is handsome, in manner friendly, affable. Above broad shoulders, he carries high a well-shaped head with a shock of white hair combed back into a pompadour. Smooth-shaven, his Roman features have been burned dark by Iowa sunshine. A quick engaging smile reveals gleaming white teeth. Not at all the hayseed type of legislator, he wears conservatively cut grey sack suits, feels no embarrassment in cutaway and silk...
...They are a fine lot of men," printed the patrician but honest Boston Transcript. "All of them are clean shaven every day. They keep their trousers pressed and their Russian shoes polished...
...Abraham Lincoln-A Cartoon History by Albert Shaw-Review of Reviews (2 vol. $8). *Dr. Shaw opines that smooth-shaven men of words tended to grow beards when they felt action (the Civil War) approaching...
...mercy of international swindlers who coveted a package of letters in her possession. But the swindlers were not to prevail, for soon an amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five minutes when he announced in his croaking voice that she was obviously fond of Chopin. What criminal could have hoped to elude such...