Word: berge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helena, Mont, long distance operator called Dr. David T. Berg to the telephone. "Lincoln is calling." Dr. Berg waited. "These is Pete Clausen talking. My wife is having a baby. . . ." Lincoln was 55 mi. away over snowed-under roads. Outdoors was -20°. Dr. Berg bundled himself well, started to motor to the case. Thirty miles out of Helena 6-ft. snow drifts blocked his car. He secured a tractor, arrived at the accouchement with 15 minutes to spare...
...other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company put on, is a Schönberg stepchild. His pupil Alban Berg wrote...
When the late Alexander Berg, wealthy St. Louis fur dealer, was kidnapped in November 1931, his abductors forced him to sign a letter appointing one Paul A. Richards, St. Louis criminal lawyer, as go-between. To Lawyer Richards the kidnapped man was forced to send a promissory note for $50,000 to be converted into cash and paid to the abductors after Berg's release. Lawyer Richards went immediately to Berg's attorney, Morris Levinson, demanded $11,000 for his proposed services on behalf of the kidnapped man-$1,000 to be paid immediately, $10,000 when Berg...
...public has now heard about the Streets of Paris. Some 800,000 sightseers have already been there. The artist's model stunt was repeated, although the young lady now wears a bit more than she did at the opening two months ago. There is a Folies-Bergère show, a glimpse of a Colonie Nudiste through a keyhole (you see your own head on a painted naked body), beer saloons called Lapin Agile, Rotonde, Harry's New York Bar. Some of them have floor shows comparing favorably with Broadway's naughtiest...
...fact that fight critics last week felt - even though he had roundly whipped the best available challenger - that Chocolate had failed to do himself justice. Now 22, Chocolate arrived in the U. S. four years ago. won 167 fights before he lost his first one, to Lightweight Jack Berg two years ago. Before that he had been a newsboy in Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama Joe Gans. Equipped with 365 suits, $65,000 in Havana real estate and a magnificent fighting brain so single-tracked that it so far contains only a few dozen English words...