Word: bernardes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later Tsar Boris went to Prague and attended a performance of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. The manager of the theatre, glancing through a prompt copy of the play, noticed that the scene was laid in Bulgaria, and read the line: "My father never had a bath in his life." Bulgaria was hastily changed to Albania, and the performance was given with great success...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Owen Bernard Corrigan, 80, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Vicar General of the archdiocese; in Baltimore...
...other long article is entitled "Toward Another War" and is from the pen of Bernard DeVoto, a slightly shopworn bargain from the Saturday Evening Post's lit'ry rummmage sale. It treats of the joys, boons and usifruots of life in the army in war time and paints in glowing terms the aesthetic delights of compulsory prophylaxis and kitchen police and association with the drug store yahoos and greengrocers who comprise our drafted armies. It's harmless and inocuous reading if you like it, but to us represents pretty sad entertainment...
Together, Dreyer and Falconetti have made the girl whom Mark Twain saw as through the eyes of an amiable, schoolgirlish companion, and whom Bernard Shaw created as a healthy, quick-witted English girl of the fox-hunting type, a person whom the spectator recognizes as someone revealed for the first time, yet who has always been known to everybody. She is answering her judges at a moment when she is forced to renounce either her life or her faith...
...Havana, a Mrs. Bernard Duis bought two bright, lively birds whose plumage matched her red hair. When she reached Manhattan by boat last week, the birds no longer matched her hair. Artificially dyed, their feathers had "run," faded...