Word: barres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the Free Press (a violent anti-Slavery paper) was edited by William E. Quinby. In the 44 years of his control, Editor Quinby developed the late Charles B. Lewis, whose humor made famous the nom de plume "M. Quad." Poet Guest he hired as an office boy. Robert Barr ("Luke Sharp") worked for him many a year before going to London to found The Idler with Jerome K. Jerome. The paper ceased to be the DEMOCRATIC Free Press in 1806 when it repudiated the nomination of William Jennings Bryan, threw its support to McKinley...
...tried out, J. H. Barr won first place. M. J. Ciampi, who won the competition last year, took second place, and J. E. Trudeau, of Trowbridge and Livingston, won third place...
...been hailing Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson of Minneapolis who accepted a court sentence rather than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city hall steps...
Sunk. On a reef off Cape Fear, N. C.: the famed Ingomar, once one of the world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting...
Score--Andover 25, Harvard Freshmen 23, Goals--Kellogg 4, Meighan 3, Barr 1, Beckwith 1, Bush 1, Nevin 3, Cary 2, Ferriter 2, Huntington 1, Fouls--Kellogg 2, Meighan 2, Sweet 1, Huntington 3, Ferriter 2, Cary 1, Henderson 1. Referee--Macbeth. Time--two 20-minute periods...