Word: beardless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Reginald Reynolds, a "confirmed serendipitist" (discoverer of unexpected treasures) and the author of a learned, witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop in one cheek and his tongue in the other, and lets the pro-and anti-beard factions fight...
...birthday they were just rehearsing for Toscanini's opera broadcast of the season-the riproaring, tearfully tender music of Verdi's Aida. The music meant something special to the maestro. He had conducted it in his Rio de Janeiro debut almost 63 years ago as a beardless bambino, and in his U.S. debut at Manhattan...
Stuffy didn't stay long at Beverly. In 1908, Madden signed him for Connic Mack, and the following spring, Stuffy, a beardless youth of 19, was heading south for New Orlcans with the Athletics. This was the start of an 18-year major league career that was to see Stuffy get over 2000 hits, make over 16,000 put-outs, slip below 300 only once, go through 119 games at first base without an error (1921-22), and appear in World Series lineups for three different teams, the Athletics, Red Sox, and Pirates...
...very pleasant jazz, this Dixieland heard at the Savoy--a jazz almost lost now, for the cash comes to other forms of music. But it's nice to see a beardless youth like Wilber playing it straight, playing it so close to Cambridge, and playing it so well. Wilber on the low notes, Hall on the high ones, and Archey's trombone make the Savoy's offering as good as anything going. Charles W. Halley...
...beardless apprentice laughed. "But what of the Ressa of the team? They can Russel plenty good backs...