Word: bard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon, the onetime Coast Guard cutter Milan turned suddenly off course when five tide-spun swimmers were spotted struggling in the water 1 ,000 yards away. As the cutter drew up, lines were thrown overboard. Then the strong arms of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary Ralph Bard and Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan helped pull the swimmers to safety...
...Bard Out-Barded...
Disgusted by the apathy of the Student Council in matters culinary and revolted by the messes of pottage which consistently appear on the House dining tables, two Lowell House gourmets rose in revolt last night and started circulation of a position to bar Hub bard squash from Harvard menus...
Shakespearean Directrix Margaret Webster who also did Evans's Richard II, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...
...Fact is, Statesman Johnson did say it, almost word for word as Lawyer Davis said it four weeks before. But some of the phrases are Shakespeare's: the general idea is older far than the Bard...