Word: bard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ralph Austin Bard, partner in Bard & Co., President of C. I. C., was a three-letter man (Baseball, Basketball, Football) at Princeton (class of 1906). His club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive...
...fame in the lyric annals of Wales. Last week Caradoc Prichard, 23, Cardiff journalist, established a record by winning for the third consecutive year. The Archdruid, robed in white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad druids, poets in azure, orators in green. A golden diadem was placed upon his head. Above him the Archdruid raised a glittering sword. "Is there peace?" he asked. "Peace," was the thunderous old answer...
...possible that the great poet visited the Harvard home in Southwark and dandled the infant university-provider on his knee? And so you have before you the probability that the founder of the first American university was the issue of a marriage brought about through the instrumentality of the Bard of Avon a combination of which we may well be proud...
...series of three open nights will be held at the Harvard College Observatory on Concord Street the later part of this month under the auspices of the Bard Astronomical Club. A short uontechnical talk will be followed, when the weather permits, by telescopic observations. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the Club...
William Shakespeare, bard, also contributed to the Mirror on the opening day of Mr. Moore's ownership. Said he at the top of the editorial page: "O, how full of briers is this working-day world!" Readers of the Mirror were offered $5 apiece for published letters answering the question: "If YOU were publishing the MIRROR, what sort of newspaper would you produce to meet your tastes and interests...