Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first real test of Labour's genuineness, and its success would imply victory, however belated, of one of the great principles of its patron saints. Ramsay MacDonald, professional politician that he is, always shied away when Labour's concretion was mentioned; the trade union heads themselves were weakly unresolved; Bernard Shaw was unable, and Sidney Webb unwilling to accomplish it. The forces of inertia with in the party and the forces of opposition without may stay Sir Charles' hand, but in this event something quite as important would have happened; Labour would be shown up for a toothless...
...Author is only five years old as a U. S. citizen, as a writer, 15, as a person, 33. Known to the census as Mrs. Bernard D. N. Grebanier, fellow-Sicilians remember Frances Winwar as Francesca Vinciguerra. Born in Taormina, where her great-uncle was caretaker of the Graeco-Roman amphitheatre, she went to the U. S. with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels...
...Corn-wallis-West, now 68, had failed once as an actress when her husband went to South Africa for a tuberculosis cure, leaving 22-year-old Mrs. Campbell with two children. When he came home six years later he found his wife the toast of London, friend of George Bernard Shaw, famed enough to add a line of her own to Shaw's Pygmalion. Between her husband's death in the Boer War and her son's death in the World War, she became famed for having her own way, once had a ton of tanbark dumped...
...Desportes, South Carolina State Senator, cousin of Bernard Mannes Baruch, to be Minister to Bolivia...
Happy at the big progress he had made last week General Johnson told newsmen that he had "enlisted" only for the emergency, hoped to finish plastering industry with Blue Eagles and retire by the middle of November to his old position as an associate of Bernard Baruch. "But," said General Johnson, "I'll be here until this job is done." Meanwhile he announced plans for giving the Blue Eagle claws by arousing public opinion: drives to sign up consumers all over the land; 1,500,000 volunteer workers; 100,000,000 "pieces of literature"; a big radio program with...