Word: bede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the letter: "The fact that the Venerable Bede was able to travel to Rome nine times during his life* demonstrates clearly the miserable condition of our time, in which one moves about Europe with the utmost difficulty . . . But . . . B.E.A. truthfully promises to deliver your person at Rome in a mere seven hours . . . and all for the price of LIII libras...
...Modern church scholars now question whether the Venerable Bede, an 8th Century Benedictine monk of St. Paul's monastery at Jarrow, England, ever made any such trips. Wrote Bede: "I have spent the whole of my life within that monastery...
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...Henry James, who knew him, dismissed him as a "tenth-rate cad." Nowadays his tomb in a Paris cemetery is said to draw more pilgrims than Balzac's or Chopin's. His name is as certain of immortality as that of Adams, James or the Venerable Bede...
Tall, boyish Photographer Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...