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"Parta kasvaa ja mies voi hyvi. (Hollola, Tavastia) (PLK)"
"Many were the disguises he assumed. At one time he even meditated cutting off his mustaches ; — that would have been "the unkindest cut of all.”"
"Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard."
"It’s always the same: if someone is against convention his only way of attacking it is by creating another convention, so that when most people are clean-shaven he grows a beard, and when beards are worn he shaves his off. He’s merely changing from one convention to another."
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man."
"BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head."
"[Lord Flasheart nods to Baldrick, who's dressed as a bridesmaid.] Flasheart: Thanks, Bridesmaid! Like the beard! Gives me something to hang on to!"
"Baldrick: Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard."
"Narrator: [introducing Baldrick] The other was the sole descendant of an unfortunate meeting between a pig-farmer and a bearded lady. History has, quite rightly, forgotten his name."
"Edmund: [Referring to The Bearded Lady] Great. We've only got one act, and she shaved her beard off!"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.