Word: beard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Seniors, besides the above requisitions, shall wear a beard. No especial color is required by law, but the Faculty are inclined to prefer a neutral tint...
...could, and, putting the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation, I asked a harmless-looking youth of the tribe called Soffamaw, what it was the will of the Mollahs of the place that I should do next. "Oh!" said he, (and may the Prophet singe his beard!)* "you must go to Or-phiz; every one goes to Or-phiz. Knock at the door, and ask the reverend Mollah with the white beard for his wife, the moon-faced Messisahriz." By the word wife these dogs mean the principal lady of the harem. Salaaming and thanking...
Cambridge University, Corpus Christi, February 25 - 100 yards, S. Palmer, 11 sec.; 120-yards handicap, H. G. Winter (6 yards start), 13 2/5 sec.; 120-yards boat-club handicap, J. B. Heywood, 13 4/5 sec.; high jump, P. H. Collins 5 ft.; 440 yards, J. B. Beard, 57 1/5 sec.; 200-yards Freshman race, A. Leahy, 24 sec.; wide jump, S. Palmer 19 ft. 9 in.; 120-yards hurdle, S. Palmer (penalized 4 yards), 19 2/5 sec.; mile-race, D. Wheeler (penalized 30 yards), 5 min. 8 1/5 sec.; 440-yards open handicap, R. Boughton-Lee, 34 yards...
...Nation, as well as all other vigorous writing of a practical nature, had tended to produce that desirable result. But he will insist on attaching a definite significance to that time-honored phrase of "Harvard indifference." Some one has said, "Give ear to no doctrine that has not a beard on its face." If I might be allowed to force the simile, it is in this case the whitened beard of decrepitude that points to speedy demise...
...pointed to a figure that had just appeared. It was a tall man, with a scraggly beard and still more scraggly hair. A shabby felt hat clung to the back of his head. His hands were in his pockets. The stump of an extinct cigar was in his mouth, and he was chewing it vigorously. His countenance was melancholy. His general appearance and his gait showed that he was anything but sober...