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
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
For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons, see cut.�ED.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rather may it be said that the Bairnsfather laughter has acted in thousands of cases as an antidote to the bane of depression.
From Fragments From France by Bairnsfather, Bruce
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