Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Ralph Merritt, one of the grapemen, last week declared: "We believe this program ... is of material assistance to the Government in enforcing Prohibition." Charles Collins Teague, a member of the Farm Beard, agreed. Dramatic color was lent their view when many a newspaper, particularly in California, reported that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, No. i U. S. gangster, had issued a threat of death to any Chicago druggist or grocer who accepted a Fruit Industries agency. The Los Angeles Examiner said Capone was incognito in its city, presumably to discuss his new competition at its source. Chicago is the next market...
...Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...
...Brooklyn, John Gentrio, barber, called Herman Finsel, plumber, to repair a leaking pipe. Plumber Finsel went back to get a gasket; Barber Gentrio held his thumb on the pipe five hours. Later, when Plumber Finsel came to the barber shop to have his beard shaved, Gentrio shaved half of it; departed, taking all the razors in the shop to be honed; stayed out five hours...
...artists who go to Laurelton Hall for the summer are personally invited by Director Lothrop. Nearly all of them paint in the modern manner. There is only one restriction. At Laurelton Hall they must paint outdoors, from Nature. Every Saturday Founder Tiffany, dignified in his long grey beard and with an orchid in his buttonhole, inspects their work, politely puzzled...
Stuart was a fine figure of a man, just under six feet, big-boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season...