Word: bard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains and was her darling for 20 years-and then unwraps from his patterned kerchief some songs of his own in the Gaelic that have been "compared very favorably to those of the great Dan Hoyser...
Died. Anatole le Braz, 67, "the Bard of Brittany" and famed French professor; at Mentone. (See FRANCE...
That fighting son of Brittany, Premier Aristide Briand, mourned last week at the death of another great Breton, a man less famous but perhaps more beloved, M. Anatole le Braz, "the Bard of Brittany." Anatole le Braz was born 67 years ago in the very heart of the Breton peninsula and of parents so close to the soil that they did not even speak French-a language still regarded as unmelodious and effete by the simple Breton woodcutters and charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint...
...satire and irresistible irony to die uncherished and unwept. From coast to coast those who have followed Lample will mourn their departed leader. Life itself will be without a parent; Mother Advocate without a son. The entire nation will mourn this departed jester royal-this wanton wit and boisterous bard...
Abraham Lincoln comes in for attention even in academic circles. No amount of searching for dates can account for the recent burst of Lincolniana. Professor Morison is not to be outdone by the Chicago bard, and he will talk of Lincoln and secession in History 32b at 11 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall Aesthetic vagabonds who dread facts, and even I often do, can go to Fogg instead and see the Van Eycks in all their glory, for Professor Edgell is talking at the same time in Fine Arts 1d on Flemish painting of the fifteenth century...