Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, the best of man's best friends have been the dogs of St. Bernard, traditionally trained by the monks of that hospice to succor and save benighted travelers in the 8,111-ft. pass under Mt. Blanc's cold shoulder near the Franco-Swiss frontier. Weighing up to 200 Ib. in maturity, the St. Bernard dogs are noted for great strength, docility, intelligence, and an expression of almost idiotic benignity. From puppyhood, the dogs are taught to drag unconscious travelers as far as they can, then run & fetch the monks from the hospice. In times past...
...fine morning last week, the St. Bernard record for canine Christianity was unaccountably shattered. From Grenoble. Dr. Jean Bremond had set out on a skiing trip across the Swiss border with his three young daughters. Up & up they slid along the Great St. Bernard pass. Cru-u-unch went their skis in the granular Alpine snow as they came in sight of the home of the pious monks of St. Bernard. A deep-voiced barking broke out as the famed dogs of the monastery came leaping to greet the travelers. Shrieking with laughter and excitement, ten-year-old Marie-Anne...
Inside the hospice, Marie-Anne shortly died with deep gashes in her face and body. Great was the grief of the brotherhood of St. Bernard, but the monks maintained they could not identify the killer. They locked up the entire pack "as punishment," gave as the only possible explanation of the tragedy their belief that the guilty dog must have "suddenly gone mad." Sorrowed the Father Superior: "We are in deep mourning here, not only for this unfortunate girl, but for the honor of our dogs that has been unblemished for centuries...
...Coast Kid") Benson of the Hobo News indignantly declared that things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
...swank Park Avenue apartment that evening, Manhattan financial writers got a further taste of how the self-styled "babes" in the Van Sweringen corporate woods do business. After munching sandwiches and drinking coffee in Mr. Young's tapestried dining room, newshawks met short, grey Frank B. Bernard of Muncie's Merchants National Bank, who will represent the Ball Foundation on Alleghany Corp.'s board. Next to be introduced was ruddy-faced, bald-pated Charles Leininger Bradley, chairman of the Erie R. R. and one of the late Oris Paxton Van Sweringen's closest associates. He will...