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Beck, Bock, Burk...
...cheered and clapped when a little white-haired clergyman, looking for all the world like a sly puppy, gave an uncertain, embarrassed smile, got up from his chair, tiptoed toward the centre of the stage, and took the ivory box. The little clergyman was the Rev. Dr. William Herbert Burk. He had been awarded the Bok Prize for founding and forwarding the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge...
...Burk, when he was a boy in Philadelphia, was sensitive to the extraordinary past whose echoes were still in the country around him. He picked up an Indian battle axe one day and, like many another U. S. urchin, stared with a long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that...
Butler--Slamovitz, Sussman v. Wambaugh--Brewster, Burk...
...Unland's Poems", Professor Burk-hard, Sever 6, German...