Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slimming Up is given over to studied critical comment: opinions on the prose of Dryden and Swift, on the literary value of the writings of English philosophers, on professional writers as opposed to amateurs, on the reasons for the egotism of actors, on the pernicious influence of Bernard Shaw on the English stage, on the excitement of rehearsals and the confused & troubling experience of first nights. Maugham's criticism is neither theatrical nor brilliant. It resembles the offhand observations that a busy artist might make to students whose abilities seem to him to be highly questionable...
...last meeting of the Executive Committee of the Sociology Club, the following officers were elected: Bernard Barber '39, Chairman; John B. Blair, '39, Vice-Chairman; and Calvin H. Elliott '40 Secretary-Treasurer...
...facing the ruthlessness of Dave Beck's A. F. of L. juggernaut, labor has again reaped the rewards of its disunity. Two years ago. Boss Beck and his teamsters elected volatile John F. Dore Mayor of Seattle over a pleasant Scandinavian councilman named Arthur Bernard Langlie. Seattle has since suffered from Dave Beck's vigorous assaults on the rising C. I. O. So by the time this year's municipal primaries rolled around, a rightist revolt was in the air. Mayor Dore sought re-election backed again by rough and ruddy Boss Beck...
...impertinent reporter wrote impertinent George Bernard Shaw: "How long do you think you are going to live?'' Shaw replied: "I cannot tell you the exact date of my death. . . . You must be content to know that as I am in my eighty-second year, my number is up, and the cremation furnace may make an end of me at any moment, to the great relief of many worthy persons...
...word of knowing Nancy Randolph, society reporter of the proletarian New York News, was what cafe society thought about the Whitney crash last week. Cafeteria society was shocked, too, and downtown they were taking it harder than any other financial scandal of the century. True, Joseph Wright Harriman and Bernard K. Marcus had misapplied bank funds and been sent to jail. Charley Mitchell was penalized for tax deficiencies and Al Wiggin had paid off stockholders to stop their suits. There was old Sam Insull, too, although Wall Street is never very surprised at the shenanigans of a Chicagoan. But Dick...