Word: barding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racks steely-bright with surgical knives, forks and spoons, rooms crowded with electrical vibrating beds, weird steel scaffolds for broken limbs, gently breathing rubber bellows for warming frozen toes. Among the most popular of the commercial exhibits was the table of urological tubes and periscopes shown by C. R. Bard, Inc. of Manhattan. Over the table hung a large panel of giddy French cartoons, drawn 30 years ago by A. Barrère, depicting the famed faculty of Sorbonne surgeons as inept and bloody butchers...
...20th Century a whole tribe of scholars and interpreters have encamped on the slopes of the Bard, assaying his every semicolon. Their discoveries have made a gulf great & wide between the specialist's knowledge of Shakespeare and the ordinary reader's memory, in which the plays are likely to seem bombastical old standbys, crested here and there with great quotations. To distill the specialist's knowledge, to provide a lucid and sound account of what art may now be seen in every play, remained an important job for somebody...
...useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm of (Carl J.) Bard & (J. Victor) Vanderbilt came forward with a design that Father Troy recognized as his nightmare...
...borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria. In Vienna she established a salon of sorts and entertained politicians, refugees, psychoanalysts, novelists, musicians and spies. In Budapest she married a Hungarian named Josef Bard, who was just as restless...
When she met Sinclair Lewis in 1927 Dorothy Thompson was restless again. She had just divorced the elusive Josef Bard and Lewis was being divorced by his first wife. After their marriage in 1928, she plunged into her new career as wife of the No. 1 U. S. novelist as energetically as she had followed her previous ones. She helped to rebuild a house in Vermont and filled it with guests. She set up an establishment in Bronxville that soon became famous as a salon. She called herself Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. She had a baby. For two years she hardly...