Word: bard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From ancient Scythia, by way of Egypt,Crete and Spain, came the persecuted, wandering children of Gaodhal Glas in search of the Isle of Destiny. "I pray," sang their Gaelic bard Amergin, "that they reach the land of Eirinn, those who are riding upon the great, productive vast sea; that they be distributed upon her plains, her mountains and her valleys...
With the announcement yesterday that W. H. Auden, the English bard, will be the Poet at the Phi Beta Kappa commencement exercises, while Byron Price, well-known journalist, will be the Orator, plans for the first post-war commencement began to take on the promised air of pre-war dignity...
William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
...them that likes their great bard bawdy, "Merry Wives of Windsor" is topped by none...
...this point, Federal Judge Guy K. Bard, who has jurisdiction over the receivers, stepped in. The judge made a visit to the towns to look and sniff for himself...