mustache

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The last sitting California governor with facial hair in his official portrait was James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, a cheery Republican with a toothbrush mustache who died of a heart attack in office in 1934.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

His own facial hair, he added, shows he “can grow a mustache and most people can’t.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

After taking some time off for vacation, Colbert returned to the show with a newly acquired mustache grown during a vacation in Turkey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

He had a Clark Gable pencil mustache, raced sailboats, cavorted with the late communist leader Fidel Castro in Cuba, and at one point married Academy Award-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

When the French artist Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa, he made the most famous parody in art history.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day