Word: barres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jacob Bertha Levison, 75, somewhat resembles the eminent flutist Georges Barrère in his close-cropped, courtly white beard and twinkling eyes. He too plays the flute, but this and his long patronage of music in San Francisco are matters of diversion. For 60 years Mr. Levison's business has been with disaster by land & sea. Fortnight ago he retired from the presidency to the chairmanship of San Francisco's famed Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Last week its two main subsidiaries confirmed him in the same change of office. Having thus ended 20 years...
...reminds me of the beautiful Russian Crimea," Comrade Troyanovsky told Bay Ridgers. "It reminds me," cried Minister Youssef, "of Rås el-Barr beach in Egypt at the mouth of the Nile. The shallow water suits me because I don't swim, although I like to float. Don't call me 'Excellency' or use my title 'Bey.' Just call me Mr. Youssef." Bay Ridgers soon discovered that Ambassador Troyanovsky serves tea and tinfoil wrapped Soviet candies to almost any caller, that Minister Youssef, although a teetotaler, is good for a Scotch and soda...
With only seven men trying for the team Freshman prospects are rather gloomy. William L. Calfee has shown best in practice; while Louis P. Roewer, John L. Barr, Jr., and Claudius J. Byrne, Jr. are expected to develop into first team material...
From room to room Director Barr has arranged his exhibits to trace the development of abstract art from the Cubists, who formalized what was still representational art, to the latest Constructivists whose esthetic thrills come from the mere sight of wheels within wheels...
Some of the things that Director Barr found most difficult to explain...