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Reverently an official inserted a needle, adjusted the record on an oldtime gramophone. He turned it on. From the old trumpet came a little sound: that was probably the Bard clearing his throat. Then came his voice, dismally wailing: "Oojee Boojee! Oojee Boojee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Museum Piece | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...because commemorative stamps carry the picture of one Marie Bard, artist's model, instead of Clarissa Harlowe (Clara) Barton's, cantankerous Red Cross foundress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Red Cross Assayed | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pyre for Champions | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...been out of pictures. She built up a real estate business in Los Angeles and made several million dollars, one million of which?as a grand gesture rare in life but common to the rich heroines in the tradition she knows?she announced she was settling on Ben Bard when she married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joy v. Monopoly | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...instance, he very adroitly hung in the wings while Miss Jane Cowl waved her hands and wrists about the zenith as Olivia in "Twelfth Night" which is occupying the foot-lights at the Wilbur (current advertising in this column is 90 cents per inch). That disposed of the Bard. As for Monsieur Homer (even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over a super-hetrodyne for the Sharkey-Campolo affair and that little detail cleared up the Iliad. He even attempted to get into the mood of the Greek drama but-somewhere or other he has learned that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

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