Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Bernard Shaw is fond of saying that he was born about 50 years ahead of his time. In London last week he told newsmen of the Institute of Journalism that their minds function far behind their time. Their backwardness of comprehension he called "time lag." Just as Great Britain long failed to recognize the United States as a permanent Republic and George Washington as anything but "one of the blackest scoundrels that ever existed," so today "the press has not yet recognized that the [Russian] revolution has taken place," said...
...Mayor should give himself time to do his job properly," said Dictator Bernard J. Newman of Philadelphia's Housing Association, last week. "There should be: 1) a Secretary of Eats to at- tend all dinners for the Mayor; 2) a Secretary of Speak to utter all the usual bombast expected from a Mayor; 3) a Secretary of Handshakes to give the glad hand to visiting delegations; 4) a Secretary of Poses to satisfy the craving to see the Mayor's picture; 5) a Secretary of Travel to go about the country for the Mayor...
...agility in one day is hard even with the sun shining. Weary, disheveled, muscle-sore were the seven contestants at the day's end, but for one man up went great cheers which he, wrapped in a blanket, acknowledged with a tired lift of his hand-cheers for Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger, Penn's "one-man track team." He had won the decathlon two years in succession and he won it again, hands down, as everyone knew he would, beating his own carnival record in spite of bad conditions...
...Bernard Berlinger, 21, 6 ft. i in., 193 lb., captain of the Penn team, a student in the Wharton School of Finance, is a fair runner, a good jumper, a fine discus thrower, indoor intercollegiate shot-put champion, and a pole vaulter so proficient that only a few specialists, shooters for world's records, can beat him over the high bar. This year he wanted to break the world's decathlon record and make sure of a place on the Olympic team. He felt he could do it if he got better at the 1,500-metre...
...Miss Belle Baruch, dark, slender eldest daughter of Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch: master of hounds of the Georgetown, S. C. Hunt, sailor and?like her sister Renee?an expert rifle shot, owner of a big racing and hunting stable at Pau, France; on her famed Arab jumper, Souriante III: the President's Cup at the Paris Horse Show from 119 contestants, most of them French cavalry officers or professional riders; for the second year in succession...