Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Additional acceptances for the Conference, which will run for two days on April 21 and 22, were received yesterday at Princeton when Nelson A. Rockefeller and Bernard K. Schaefer, President of the Colombia-America Chamber of Commerce, accepted for the Latin-American table; and when Dr. B. M. Little, Regional Director of the Social Security Board, and Dr. William Waller, Assistant Surgeon-General, United States Public Health Service indicated they would participate in the discussion at the social security table...
...Daniel A. Buckley scholarships for the whole academic year were won by Bernard Barber '39, Harry M. Johnson Jr. '39, and James M. Robertson Jr. '39. Sotirios C. Papafranges '39 received the Aristides Evangelus Phoutrides scholarship, and the Stoughton scholarship was awarded to Harry Pollard...
...George Bernard Shaw is one of the few men who is just as good as he thinks he is. For although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...
...Oxford Bernard Berenson met Trivialist Logan Pearsall Smith and his sister, Mary Logan Smith Costelloe, whom he later married. In Italy he found the land and the loveliness he had been looking for. He supported himself in Florence by taking tourists through art galleries at one lira per head, in mortal terror of being knifed by one of the local guides. In 1894 Berenson published Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four compact little books each of which furnished a Baedeker guide to principal masterworks and graceful, serious essays in handily numbered paragraphs on the artists of each...
Cloistered in his 40 acres of cypress, fir and formal garden, with the delicate profile of the Apennines behind and the valley of the Arno below, Bernard Berenson applied his gifts of lucidity and feeling to the unsolved problems of Italian art. One of his earliest and most famous feats was the creation of a hypothetical Florentine artist, Amico di Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that...