Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempts condensation, but otherwise little resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor of the Spectator; and Philanthropist Sir Julien Cahn...
...scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made of newspapers. Of the contemporary interpreters of science, the most lucid are Russell, Haldane and John William Navin Sullivan. Himself more of a plain man than a scientist, Interpreter Sullivan...
That afternoon C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, 49, walked across the street to Lewisohn Stadium to review a drill of the college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. When he reached the entrance with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
Lycanthropy was a family failing among the Pitamonts. One Christmas Eve in mid-Nineteenth Century Paris Bertrand, product of Father Pitamont's rape of a servant girl, was born into the tradition. A preternaturally quiet baby, he had hair on his palms. Aside from this infallible sign, his adopted father Aymar had good reason to know all about him. He took the child and his mother into the country and brought the boy up carefully, hoping for the best. But lycanthropy will out: before Bertrand was full-grown farmers thereabouts began to complain of midnight raids on their sheep...
...Polignac, crowned Prince Grimaldi of Monaco at his 1920 wedding; in Monte Carlo. Grounds: some Monaco republicans wanted Prince Pierre for President. To get Louis II's permission for divorce, Charlotte signed over her hereditary rights to the throne to her only son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand...