Bairnsfather
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Lauren Bairnsfather, director of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, said America has been such “a place of assimilation and opportunity” for Jews that many were blindsided by the massacre.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2022
Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons�featuring a character called "Old Bill"�become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike.
From Time Magazine Archive
I always wanted to be known as the Bairnsfather of this war.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was then a private in the United States Medical Corps, and his O. D.'s made him look more like Bairnsfather than Dickens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Bairnsfather has become a household word—or perhaps one should say a trench-hold word.
From Fragments From France by Bairnsfather, Bruce
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