Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit of criticism but for the sake of correctness, may I comment on your use of the word "catty-corner" in TIME of Nov. 14: "Sir James [Barrie] lives ... on London's Adelphi Terrace catty-corner from George Bernard Shaw's former home." The proper spelling is "eater-corner" or less properly "cata-corner." The word implies the numeral four as does the word "cater-cousin," fourth cousin
Secretary Mills who sped to the Mayflower to deliver it to Governor Roosevelt. The President-elect was just leaving for the station to continue his journey to Georgia. Promising an answer later he hurriedly summoned Bernard Mannes Baruch, Democracy's supreme financial adviser, asked him to ride part way South with him to discuss the President's statement. Mr. Baruch consented and as the Roosevelt private car rolled down through Virginia a conference of high state was held in the observation parlor. Besides Mr. Baruch, Governor Roosevelt had the assistance of Professor Moley. William H. Woodin (American...
...Washington's fashionable Mayflower Hotel became the political centre of the U. S. Its spacious lobbies were jammed with Senators and Representatives eager for a peep at the next President of the U. S. Up & down its thick-carpeted halls marched a throng of important people ranging from Bernard Mannes Baruch to Rear Admiral Cary Grayson. Through the street crowd of plain citizens Supreme Court Justice Brandeis shouldered his way inside. So did Minnesota's Governor Olson and General William Mitchell, retired Army Air Service critic. In Room No. 776 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was holding court...
Ziff Co. was established twelve years ago by William Bernard Ziff, now 34. Starting with the Chicago Defender he built up a large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...
...need for an American historian who understands the spirit of the country is defined by Bernard Fay in the current Scribners. He points out that "America. . .prey to a tremendous upheaval and laboring under the shock of events which make inoperative an exact sense of her mission and her national aims, needs a first rate instruction in history at once." Other countries have various forces which contribute to national unity, such as the language in France and the traditions of literature and art in Germany; but America lacks these. History has taken that position in this country, according to Professor...