Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawks, he gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served as counsel, he was singled out for honorable presidential mention by the Board's onetime chairman and Democracy's silent partner, Bernard Mannes ("Berney") Baruch. By the time Governor Ritchie left New York for Pittsburgh to address the Third International Bituminous Coal Conference, his White House candidacy had grown to visible proportions...
Some years ago a scientist announced that it was possible to cut the head from off the body and allow the intellect to exist without nourishment of any king. George Bernard Shaw thought the conceit a quaint one, it would save his getting dressed in the morning and allow him to exert his only important function unhampered, so he toyed idly with the idea in the columns of the London Times. Mr. Shaw is still at large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh...
With about four minutes left to play, and with the Crimson holding the ball on its own 10-yard line, Bernard Feins '33, threw three passes to Lupien, and P. D. de Give '34, netted 30 yards in two plays, a total of 88 yards, bringing the pigskin within two yards of the goal line. In the last minute of play Harvard threw a pass, which just ticked the fingers of the receiver and fell to the ground...
...Room, Getting Gertie's Garter) that caused the reformers of a decade ago to cry shrilly for the police. But Al Woods has innumerable friends. Notably sloppy in his dress, generally ill-shaven, he calls everybody, male or female, "Sweetheart" with the exception of his friend George Bernard Shaw whom he addresses as "Buddy...
...artist in essentials, Inventor Edison was absentminded, often unkempt, given to laconic epigrams, careless about money. Having accepted "thirty thousand" for a new kind of transmitter bought by a British company, he was astonished at being paid in pounds, not dollars. He afterward received this letter from George Bernard Shaw: "I have the honor, sir, to inform you that you have now destroyed all the privacy in Great Britain...