Bairnsfather
Britishnoun
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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
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
I always wanted to be known as the Bairnsfather of this war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among other mural decorations were some rough sketches drawn by Captain Bairnsfather, which afterward became famous as "Fragments from France."
From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride
"If you know a better 'ole," he would say, quoting Bairnsfather, "go to it!"
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
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