Word: berge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interlachen when it looked as if Mrs. Vare might lose. One was in her semi-final match with 18-year-old Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis whom she defeated 2 & 1. The other came the next day when she was playing a 17-year-old, freckled-faced tomboy named Patty Berg, whose father persuaded her to take up golf three years ago, hoping it would make her lose interest in playing football on a neighborhood boys' team. Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes in succession, halved another and dropped...
...death sentence to life imprisonment last week, the Realmleader observed: "Keim was not wholly responsible for his crime." Nazi jurists commented that the Keim killing was nonpolitical, recalled that Realmleader Hitler has never interfered with a political beheading. Notably Der Reichsfuhrer refused to spare beauteous Baroness Benita von Berg, famed aristocratic German stooge of a clever Polish spy (TIME...
...cool August night Manhattan's 1935-36 theatrical season last week officially opened with an inexpensive, inept, vulgar and apologetic musical review called Smile at Me (sketches by Edward J. Lambert, music by Gerald Dolin and Lambert: produced by Harold K. Berg). Strewn through an evening of unqualified shoddy were a few good vaudeville turns: singing by light tan Avis Andrews; a sadistic Death dance by Vito and Piri; a sadistic Hawaiian dance by Paul and Poppy Mears...
...Wozzeck's. Lulu is a vampire who feeds on power and lust. She destroys three men in the first two acts. At the end when she is murdered and horribly mutilated, the orchestra emits one terrifying shriek. Then only did Bostonians sit up in their seats. For although Berg again "uses the twelve-tone scale, he weaves it into a crafty harmonic design, subjects it to his moods which are for the most part restrained...
...Berlin audience cheered 15 minutes when the excerpts were played there last November. Boston's applause was perfunctory. In the Herald the music was pronounced "incredibly thick and often excessively boring." To the Transcript Berg was "a composer of the first rank, whose speech shall yet be understood by those who scoff...