Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jasper is the theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium dream, fancied he was accomplishing...
Judge Carr is to be congratulated also upon his unusual grasp of the historical implication of the case. Citing the "Encyclopedia Britannica" and Mr. Bernard Sobel's "Burleycue--An Underground History of Burlesque Days" he announced that "burlesque has changed considerably since the days of Aristophanes and Sheridan." He is further to be congratulated upon his escape from picayuno technicalities in deciding that "it is unnecessary for me to determine the extent of the attire. . . If these were the ones they displayed heads and more or less of the bust. They were slightly clothed...
...gory Italian work later in Abyssinia. Then French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin. who last month gave back to Tahitian girls their reputedly indecent pareus, announced that the massacring tribesmen were "nomads who have never been pacified," called Gobad an "occurrence incidental to colonial rule." To butchered young Administrator Bernard went, posthumously, by Premier Flandin's order, the tiny rosette of the Legion of Honor...
...small fortune out of his books (The Good Companions; English Journey). He is likely to make another fortune from the stage on the strength of his discovery that a playwright can get by with a few unpretentious tricks and a couple of good characters. For the characters of Bernard Baxley and George Radfern in Laburnum Grove, Playwright Priestley may be forgiven almost any of his dramatic shortcomings. Bernard Baxley (Melville Cooper), late of Singapore ("a man's life!''), has hooded eyes, a wolfish gait, greying hair and a small paunch. Constantly engaged in a verbal scrimmage with...
...diving the Crimson should emerge with the first two places, taken by Henry Fitts and Bernard Merriam, and of a Harvard victory in the relay there is little doubt...