Word: bardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year Brokers Tip Won. It was a bard school. In morning workouts (young Eddie had the man-sized chore of galloping 15 horses every morning), Davison would never tell him simply to "breeze this horse a half mile with a nice snug hold." Instead, he would tell him to work the half in 50 seconds?and he meant neither one second more nor one second less. Eddie learned to have a clock in his head." In New Orleans in 1933?the year Brokers Tip won the Derby?a "bug boy"* named Arcaro began to get into print...
Placid Cats. Drs. Philip Bard and Vernon B. Mountcastle of Johns Hopkins told of experiments with half-brained cats. Some years ago they discovered that when its whole forebrain was removed, a cat became uncontrollably ferocious, reacting with outrage to the slightest provocation. Apparently the lower brain, the seat of anger, was dominating the cat in the absence of the forebrain...
Your vinegarish report on General Joseph W. Stilwell moves me to quote a bit from the Bard...
...Sheraton Hotel is headed by an affluent New Jersey lawyer named Amos Peaslee. In Philadelphia, Jay Cooke, great-grandson of the Civil War financier and a onetime G.O.P. candidate for the U.S. Senate, is in charge. In Chicago, active Stassen supporters include former Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard, United Air Lines President William Patterson, and Walter Paepcke, chairman of the board of the Container Corp. of America...
Three lieutenants to provide the back-bone of the editorial bard of the 1951 Freshman Redbook were named by Donald M. Maynard '51, recently designated as chairman himself by the Council Committee for Freshman Affairs...