Word: bayard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...School nominates Senator Bayard for the Presidency...
...Sauzade. William Henry Schaefer. Samuel Shepherd. Paul Shorey. James Fulton Slade, Herbert Weir Smyth Alfred Warner Spencer, William Antonius Spirney, George Hermon Steams, William Oskman Stearns, Russell Sturgis, George Eliab Sturtevant, William Sullivan, David Arthur Taggart, Frederick Weston Taylor, Henry Osborn Taylor, Hubert Engelbert Teschemacher, Nathaniel Niles Thayer, Charles Bayard Trail, Bayard Tuckerman, Paul Tuckerman, James Arthur Tufts, Hermann Francis Vickery, Charles Henry Vinton, Henry Prince Warden, Benjamin Welles, Joseph Cutler Whitney, Charles Kilborn Williams, Henry Austin Wood, Alfred Worcester, Gilbert Montland Yates, Theodore Trip Young...
...amusing communication relative to the stained-glass window in Memorial Hall. The author of that communication confesses his ignorance of the character which the design was intended to represent, although the name of Sir Philip Sidney was inscribed on the window, and mistakes that pensive individual for the Chevalier Bayard who was destined to occupy the other half of the double window...
...feature was a very long pair of lilac legs, and who balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed him to be the former of those gentlemen, on the historical occasion when he needed a glass of water to "brace him up"; but whoever he was, he tarried with us but a little while. It was said that he had been "caved in" by a strong...
...Senator Bayard said that the man who made the phrase 'Pleasures that come unlooked for are twice welcome,' was never called upon suddenly to make an after-dinner speech. His steps had been bent thither by invitation of one of the societies, before whom on the morrow he might perhaps say something in response to the heavy idea of the toast. If pleasures unexpected were twice welcome, so indeed were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree...