Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kings County judge, W. Bernard ("Bernie") Vause had been sentenced to six years in jail for stock-swindling by mail with Columbia Finance Corp., a pseudo-bank into which many poor people put savings...
...things happened to George Bernard Shaw last week which he would never have predicted. He allowed himself to sign a contract to let his plays be cinematized (see p. 46). And he found himself set to music. Until pictures could talk, a Shavian film was obviously impossible. Almost as strange as a silent Shaw picture would be a Shaw opera. That, however, had not been attempted by the young German composer, Karl Friedrich Grimm, who mounted Shaw's steps last week, score in hand. He had merely written a prelude to Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra. Shaw listened, pondered...
...definitive life of Oscar Wilde, first published in 1916, Author Harris has added only a long statement, never before published, by Lord Douglas, and a memoir of Wilde by George Bernard Shaw...
Making a long detour, the monks of St. Bernard reached their hospice safely. They were puzzled, vexed by their experience. The two hospices of St. Bernard have offered hospitality and aid for almost a thousand years to all wayfarers, regardless of race, creed or party...
...Great St. Bernard pass leading from Martigny, Switzerland to Aosta, Italy has been known and used since prehistoric times. Dangerous always, snow usually covers it to a depth of seven or eight feet, sometimes 40 ft. In 962 Bernard (923-1008), a priest, seeing that many pilgrims used the pass on their way to Rome, founded a hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit...