Word: bonne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Significance. Stories so simple and unimposing, so "sentimental", as this one are very rarely told in public. When they are they seldom ring true. Sir James Barrie can do them, child that he is. Bonn Byrne's wistful blarney gets astonishing effects. Christopher Morley's vein is more magical; the tail of his kindly eye is almost mystically acute. This Barry Benefield, whom one cannot help identifying with Jim Pickett, seems to have no unusual gifts or tricks. Yet he is quite as irresistible as the others. An unforgettable book...
...ceremony began with a rendition of Brahms' mournful First Symphony, played by the Philharmonic Orchestra. This over, Prof. Platz of Bonn University acted as public orator, skilfully avoided use of the word "republic." He declared that the "outside world still listens keenly when it hears the name of Weimar, although it is not thoroughly convinced when the Constitution of Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized...
...official Agricultural Commission, the first to travel abroad since the War, left Bremen for the U. S. to study the progress made in U. S. agriculture during the past ten years. Members of the Commission: Prof. Theodor Brinkmann of Bonn University, Prof. George Keuhne of Munich University, Prof. Theodor Roemer of Halle University, Herr Joachim Deiche, large farmowner...
Baron von Maltzan, an Under Secretary at the Foreign Ministry, is aged 47. Born at Mecklenburg, educated at the Universities of Bonn and Breslau, the Baron first thought of carving out a career for himself as a soldier of the Kaiser. On second thought, he decided to become a diplomat; and, after having risen to the heights of a first lieutenancy, he left the Army shortly before breaking into the third decade of his life...
Professor Osternout came to Harvard as an assistant professor of botany in 1909. He graduated from Brown University in 1893 and received his master's degree from the same institution a year later. He then spent two years at the University of Bonn and returned to this country to receive his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California in 1899. He served as instructor in botany at Brown University and at Woods Hole, Mass, until he went to the University of California again in 1901. During the next eight years he remained there, becoming an associate professor...