Word: berg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quite as brave as ex-Monk Freyden-berg was Pierre Pigeaire, a correspondent for the United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...
Present at table was Friedrich August III, deposed King of Saxony, and he with a solemn flourish proposed the principal toast: "Your Imperial Majesty's health and happiness." Obsequiously seated some distance from the head of the table was Herr von Berg, shrewd lawyer, who recovered from the German Republic and the State of Prussia over $3,000,000 for onetime Kaiser Wilhelm. Though correspondents were not admitted to any of these functions, most of them curbed their tempers well, took only the smallest revenge by ferreting out the fact that each guest received a handsomely engraved...
...Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager of the M-G-M studios. She is now working on a film version of The Last of Mrs. Ckeyney...
...sick of the sweet and dreary musical comedies which littered Broadway, he produced The Follies, a revue which took its name from the Parisian Folies Bergères and duplicated its gay and daring makeup. New Yorkers, at this time innocent of the malpractice which has since become famous as the "buttock and leg show," danced with frantic eagerness to see what Ziggy* had done. They discovered over the door the legend which, however inaccurate or uncomplimentary it may have seemed, described its author's business in terms that have been remembered. "Glorifying the American Girl" was the legend...
Professor E. J. Berg, head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Union College, and consulting engineer for the General Electric Company, will speak at the University Friday and Saturday on "Heaviside's Operational Calculus" and "Personal Reminiscences of Charles Steinmetz." The lectures will be in Pierce Hall at 4.30 o'clock on Friday and 12 o'clock on Saturday...