Word: beardless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their bloated escorts trampling up to Heaven on the bodies of peons. These pictures were especially mutilated...
...Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...
...civilians estimated the "bombardment loss" in Damascus, since the original or "heavy" bombardment of last October, at $6,000,000. One third of the city is in ruins. Throughout the remaining two thirds, life has become a bare existence. Thomas T. Topping, able Associated Press correspondent at Damascus, no beardless alarmist, cabled last week: "The situation in Damascus today is unparalleled in world history...
With hesitation it may be asserted that the facts fail to prove the case. Emphatically they prove nothing against beardless brilliance. Horrible as a nation of prodigies would be, one now and then escapes premature impotence. There was a boy Chatterton who fooled wiseacres, an astounding child Macaulay, and the infant Mozart who played so sweetly that the whole family risked pneumonia to listen. And then, more recently, there is Daisy Ashford and the "Young Visitors...
Tirabocchi from Firpoland ? beardless, breathless, triumphant...