Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Composer Carpenter is that happy combination, a businessman of artistic ability. True, he inherited the business (mill, railway and shipping supplies), but he did not drop it. He studied music at Harvard and entered his father's office. He met Elgar, pride of England, he studied under Bernhard Zielin, he composed the jazz panto-ballet Krazy Kat for the Chicago Orchestra and continued functioning as his company's vice president. Legerity, wit and polish are the chief characteristics of his music...
...realms of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace the year has brought no overwhelming and secure accomplishment. Meanwhile many a semiliterate inquired, "Why do them Swedes spell 'noble' 'n-o-b-e-l'?"; and many a citizen of ripe culture wondered just who Alfred Bernhard Nobel really was, and exactly how he had occupied himself in amassing the thirty million Swedish kroner ($9,000,000) with which he endowed the Nobel Foundation...
Commented Georg Bernhard, leading Liberal publicist, in the Vossische Zeitung...
...election held last Saturday, the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa elected the following Seniors to membership: Bernhard Goldman Bechhoefer, of St. Paul, Minn; Philip Wigglesworth Chase, of Milton; Charles Franklin Dunbar, of Cambridge; Robert Maurice Davidson of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hugh Langdon Elstree of Preston Hollow, N. Y.; William Alexander Grimes, of Catonsville, Me.; Saul Wallenstein Jarcho, of New York, N. Y.; Victor Harris Kugel, of New Haven, Conn.; Morris Marden, of Winthrop; Prescott Clifton Mabon, of New York, N. Y.; Henry Reiff of New York, N. Y.; Irwin Rosen of Lowell; Albert Eberle Schwartz, of Cincinnati...
...Bernhard Jantos, ex-German soldier believed dead, startled his relatives by knocking at the door. He had just arrived from Siberia, having spent nearly ten years there in prison. He said that there was still a large number of German prisoners of war in Siberia. The German Government took immediate steps to repatriate...