Word: beardless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many memorabilia of "Honest Abe", as well as the axe, and of the Civil War period in general, are included in the historical exhibit. The objects range in size from the formidable ten pound woodchopper to an early photograph showing him in his young and beardless days. In the writings they vary from a terse notice announcing his return to private life to the twelve hundred pages of "Gone With the Wind," which was included for reasons which the reporter was unable to discover...
...statue will be unveiled next week in the entrance court of Rockefeller Center's International Building. The work of 49-year-old Lee Lawrie, member of Washington's Federal Art Commission, long famed for his work on Nebraska's State Capitol, it shows a beardless, youthful Atlas stepping up to a granite pedestal with bis left foot, bearing on his shoulders a tremendous astronomical globe whose axis will point at the North Star. The whole thing will be 45 ft. tall, high as a four-story building, and so perfectly balanced that it needs no unusual armature...
...Rome Benito Mussolini felt that the time was ripe to do a little crowing. The Ethiopian War was going the way it should have gone six months ago. The Imperial Guard of Haile Selassie was smashed. The Negus himself was supposed to be hiding, beardless in the bushes. With a little luck Italian troops should reach Dessye by Easter. Then II Duce could demand peace on his own terms. To the Fascist Grand Council last week he roared...
...matter-of-fact portraits into newspaper headlines. She paints her Cape Cod neighbors into a Biblical subject, gives the mural to Chatham's First Congregational Church which was founded in 1696 by a fisherman. Three years ago she did it with Christ Preaching to the Multitude, with a beardless, sneering Portuguese fisherman for Christ (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). Last week she made more headlines when she gave First Congregational a companion piece called The Last Supper...
...mountain's 20 monastic communities live some 5,000 monks. That they may not be led into temptation, not only are women banned but also beardless boys (under 18) and female animals whose matings might "furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which . . . are daily being purified." Spiritually preoccupied with an attainable Heaven, an avoidable Hell, the Athonites do not always succeed in resisting the prickings of the flesh. Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards...