Word: bert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Representative Fred Al bert Britten of Illinois, ranking member of the House Naval Affairs Committee: "I think that officers of the Navy generally feel that Rear Admiral Magruder went off half-cocked and that instead of doing the Navy a service he probably has hurt us in the eyes of the public. ... I do not believe that Admiral Magruder should or will be disciplined. . . . Congress will never tolerate the gagging of Admiral Magruder...
Music at the Copley-Plaza will be furnished by the Meyer Davis Society Orchestra of Washington, D. C., and by the Barybary Coast jazz band of Dartmouth. Bert Lowe, in person, and his 20 piece Hotel Statler Orchestra will play for the Statles...
...pretty good horse and had a "kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
...Byrd crew supplied Parisians with types for all tastes. Some chose sleek, swart Bert Acosta who had piloted the big ship to the French coast and then collapsed with exhaustion. While Commander Byrd slept on the first night in Paris, Pilot Acosta, despite a broken collar bone, continued to pilot his comrades through an informal demonstration at Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening...
...Bert Acosta, who piloted the America, until the coast of France was reached, has Spanish blood in his veins, is more of a daredevil and less of a technician than the other members of the crew. He has driven racing automobiles as well as the winning airplane in the 1921 Pulitzer Cup. He taught Canadians to fly before the U. S. entered the War. He served in both the U. S. Army and Navy...