Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...droit de suite occasionally rights wrongs. In 1926 The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau, who died in poverty, fetched 420,000 francs ($16,800) at a Paris auction. Rousseau's sister, a Mme Bernard, sued the original owner, M. Eichenberger, for her 3% ($504) which he refused to pay on the grounds that it was not a real sale. His own agents had bid the picture in at the reserve price of 420,000 fr. when it was not exceeded. In court, Mme Bernard...
...Poznan's municipal park last week pointing to a granite map of Poland with an enormous outstretched arm which promises to be a great convenience to Polish pigeons. Mrs. Wilson, Poland's President Ignacy Moscicki, U. S. Ambassador John North Willys, Auguste Cardinal Hlond, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Mannes Baruch and Daughter Belle piled wreaths about Statue Wilson's ankles. Out by the gate was a smaller bust of Democrat Wilson's faithful lieutenant Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover, now unalterably Republican, sent a message: "It has been my own good fortune to visit Poland...
Nora Bayes, Sam Bernard, Hazel Dawn, Al Jolson and some others are sitting with Diamond Jim and Lillian, a quiet, friendly supper party with wit and wine. Miss Russell asks Miss Bayes to sing. Miss Bayes, reincarnated in electric yet mellow Ruth Etting, arises simply and simply sings "Shine on Harvest Moon." Hardened revue-goers call it the smash song of this summer on Broadway, all Little Shows and Band Wagons notwithstanding...
...misty morning in Manhattan last week a score of criminals plodded across the Bridge of Sighs from the Tombs to the Criminal Courts Building. At the head of the procession, handcuffed to a Porto Rican burglar, marched well-groomed Bernard K. Marcus, high-headed president of the defunct Bank of United States. Behind him with head bowed came Saul Singer, chairman of the executive committee, manacled to his 24-year-old son Herbert, bewildered dummy in the bank's subsidiaries. Week before all three had been convicted of wilfully misapplying $8,000,000 of Bank of United States...
...childhood it was understood that he was to be an artist. He lived successively in Barcelona, Madrid, finally Paris-always drawing. Paris became his spiritual as well as his physical home. Today it is as unfair to consider him simply a Spanish artist as it is to consider George Bernard Shaw an Irish dramatist...