Word: muttonchops
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Brush was the most colorful figure on the 1997 Harvard baseball team, a squad with more hues than a jumbo box of Crayolas. He wore thick glasses and robust muttonchop sideburns and strolled around the right-field bullpen with his uniform shirt untucked and his pitching hand down his pants...
...fact, Hughes speculates that since of Wilfred, the presence of healthy, bouyant hair has become a signifier of prowess: "The immense bigotis (mustaches) and patillas (muttonchop whiskers) sported by Barcelonese industrialists 1000 years later may, in their walruslike magnificence, have seemed to some of their owners to claim the virtues of Guifreel Pelos...
...house is unprepossessing, a small, white wooden frame structure in a quiet Salt Lake City suburb. The family patriarch, a stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches...
...single solo and a walk-on role as a bordello manager. Seberg's dubbed voice is as thin as the plot, and Eastwood's real one is scarcely a millimeter thicker. Marvin gamely rasps his lines, but crooning is not his bag. Comedy is. Fitted with outrageous muttonchop whiskers and a mop of a mustache, he postures and pratfalls with a grace that was previously achieved only by Buster Keaton and total alcoholics...
...Beers, Michelin, Rio Tinto, IBM. The French branch's string-tied bundles of stock fill an ancient five-story bank vault whose keyholes are hidden behind brass lionheads. In the buff sandstone building at 21 Rue Laffitte that has been home to de Rothschild Freres since 1817, muttonchop-whiskered family ancients line the walls in oil and marble, and ushers wearing black swallow-tailed coats attend the customers, while 300 employees quietly work. Guy de Rothschild occupies a small, white-painted office, which has on display a pastel of Grandfather Alphonse and the signatures of Meyer's five...