Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most of the world, Britain was last week worrying about the next war. On that subject her leading citizens were highly vocal. Pink-cheeked George Bernard Shaw led off with a short-wave radio broadcast on the subject "Whither Britain?" Through yawps of static, the U. S. heard his pleasant Irish voice : "The big question is, for instance, is Britain heading straight for war? That is what you want to know, isn't it? At present Britain is not heading straight for anywhere. She is as likely to drift into war as anybody else, providing somebody else starts...
Though the names of prisoners taking N. Y. U.'s course were kept secret. Sing Sing inmates who could have told the professors something about the practical side of their subjects included Frank H. Warder, onetime New York State Superintendent of Banks; Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, onetime president and executive vice president respectively of New York's Bank of United States...
...TRUE TO BE GOOD, VILLAGE WOOING, & ON THE ROCKS-George Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). The three latest plays of the Old Maestro. MOSTLY CANALLERS-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Short stories by an author whose claim to the Erie Canal is undisputed. FOOLS RUSH IN-Anne Green-Dutton ($2.50). Another frothily innocuous yarn by the sister of a morbidly good writer. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-Gertrude Stein-Harcourt, Brace ($3). First U. S. edition (abridged) of Gertrude Stein's unreadable magnum opus...
Dive Won by Henry K. Fitts, Jr. '36 (73.16); second, Bernard F. Merriam, 11, '36 (66.30); third, Tulis...
...Mayo Brothers clinic in Rochester, Minn. Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, 55, personal physician to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, was recuperating after removal of a kidney tumor. At his bedside was his good friend Bernard Mannes Baruch...