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WHISKERS
THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN RELATION TO HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
By C. J. Dennis
… And this brings us to Germany, the natural home of hirsute grotesquery.
German Examples
FROM the “monkey frill” of Wagner to the “mutton chop” embellishments of Bismarck and his alleged master, Frederick, we come to those three outstanding wartime figures, ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, Von Tirpitz, and Hindenburg. With that elaborately-trained representation of the German eagle that reared arrogantly from his upper lip, the ex-Kaiser was a hoarding, advertising all the bombast, vanity, and childish fustian that his tragic acts later revealed. Behind his forked beard Von Tirpitz lurked, threatening but ineffective, even as his fleet lurked in the Kiel Canal. But those pendulous pothooks that drooped aggressively upo
