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Lionel Stubgrove despaired of showing his face in polite
society ever again.
Laughed out in the first round of the Great British Beard
Championships of 1897, he foolishly got into a heated
argument with one of the judges, that scathing windbag, H.G.
Wells, who had chimed in with a caustic comment on
Stubgrove's feeble whiskers.
Matters were settled with Stubgrove being roundly drummed
out of the Royal Society of Beards, his beard privileges
revoked, and his face summarily dry-shaved with a blunt
razor.
(Wells, as you all know, was Senior Fellow of the RSB. He
was awarded an honorary beard in 1892, but never grew
it.)
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