Word: bert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...
...OUTLINE OF SANITY-Gil-bert K. Chesterton-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Glorifying the economic individual...
...first day, both houses adjourned in memory of the late Senators Albert B. Cummins of Iowa and Bert M. Fernald of Maine; but not until stormy Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana had risen from his seat in the rear of the Senate to demand an investigation of corruption charges against Arthur R. Gould, who had just taken oath of office as Senator from Maine. On the second day, the President's message was read, and the House adjourned in memory of onetime Speaker Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon. On the third day, came the President's annual...
Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...
...Four more minutes were consumed while the Senate met as the Senate to swear in David W. Stewart of Iowa as the successor of the late Senator Albert B. Cummins, and to hear the announcements and condolences of the deaths of Senators Cummins and Bert M. Fernald of Maine...