Word: bard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years, they appeared in opposite corners of a public ring last summer when Interventionist Dorothy learned Lewis was plugging America First. Of his wife Lewis cracked to a Chicago lecture audience in 1939: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
...reporter. He is also a director of the Sunpapers, and is now conducting the management's negotiations with the Newspaper Guild. Most afternoons Mencken drops in at the Sun office, chats with cronies-President Paul Patterson, Editor-in-Chief John Owens, and a character called "The Bentztown Bard," who gets out a column of Biblical quotations, homely recipes and small-town chitchat...
...most popular, but by all odds the smartest of the lot is a song satirizing superannuated officers of Britain's Home Guard, which brilliantined Bard Noel Coward wrote and has been plugging since his return from the U.S. Title: Could You Please Oblige Us With a Bren...
...best show. Kitty tolerated no coughing or sniffling during his lectures. Once, halfway through, he coughed himself. He pulled himself together, said, "I am sorry, gentlemen, I cannot go on," and marched out. He lectured by the hour on single lines of Shakespeare, missed not a syllable of the Bard's meaning...
Always alert for a pat tag from the Bard, a chance to get off a self-deprecatory wisecrack, Britons last week merrily quoted Hamlet to each other, felt an obscure contentment that the most fantastic episode in Britain's greatest war could be cosily tied up with Shakespeare...