Word: berge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even so versatile a genius as Alec Templeton can hold 6,000,000 radio listeners for a full half hour. So Alec Templeton Time employs guest stars, an orchestra under Symphonist Daniel Saiden-berg, a 16-voice chorus, and, for the last month an Old Country crowd pleaser named James Patrick Rudolph Francis O'Malley...
...missed at previous sessions. This time, Physicist Bernard Jaffe knew what kind of fathead might properly be boiled in oil (a fish called a fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
...Svelte, 22-year-old Beatrice Barrett, Patty Berg's neighbor in Minneapolis, who set a new record for the Women's National when she posted 74 in the opening-day qualifying round, only two strokes above men's par for the long Wee Burn course...
Last week, when the Women's National Championship was played at the Wee Burn Club in Noroton, Conn., the topflight women golfers of the U. S. could look the menfolk square in the eye. Redheaded, 21-year-old Patty Berg, No. 1 woman golfer, was unable to defend her title because of a recent appendectomy. But there were 198 other girls (including the champions of two foreign countries) who kept the galleries beguiled. Outstanding were...
Novelist Heyward's principal case history is that of broad-shouldered, deep-bosomed Rhoda Berg, whom squat, bandy-legged Adam Work had deserted five years before. When Adam came back after the crash, she refused to sleep with him, pined for the days when "dere was always something it was time to do ... to tie de canes, to hoist de bundle to yo' head an' feel de good weight press down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local...