Word: barts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introductory essays on the spirit, the history, and the technique of Chinese poetry, Dr. Bart committed himself to several errors. Just to point out two: Chu Yuan is not "one of the shadowy personalities that appear often, in the annals of Chinese literature" and his poem Li Sao is not "a rambling poem which seldom makes a strong appeal to the foreign reader." He is the greatest of all Chinese poets by universal consent. Indeed so great is he that he needs not our "weak witness" of his name though very uncertain do we feel about his life and birth...
...quiet of his mountain lodge Organist Yon felt inspired to tell in music the story of the Irish Saint for whom his Cathedral was named. Back in New York he commissioned a libretto from Armando Romano, an editor of Il Progresso. Last week, thanks to Humbert Fugazy and Bart Manfredi, two devout Roman Catholic prizefight promoters who furnished the necessary backing, New York heard the world premiere of The Triumph of St. Patrick...
...William Morris, Bart. ("Ford of England"): upped to a barony said to have cost him a cool ?1,000,000 in charitable gifts...
Secret practice, as I remember it, was introduced at Harvard in the autumn of 1893, when Bart Waters was captain of Harvard and Loring Delano, of flying wedge fame, was an active coach. Everything was secret that year. No undergraduates had the pleasure of seeing their team practice. I saw no practice at all that year, as it was secret, even with my own brother, a Freshman, playing right end, opposite Frank Hinkey of Yale, on that team. I backed the team, and with my allowance went to Springfield at considerable expense for an undergraduate, and saw Harvard lose...
...spread over Europe. Between the continents it hit the Cameronia, put 500 passengers to berth, killed none. Off England last week the entire crew of a fishing smack caught the disease, but kept to sea until they exhausted their rum & quinine. French battleships Paris and Jean Bart reported most of their personnel disabled...