Word: bert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. F. Wachter is in charge of the races and Coach Stevens will referee. Coach Newell will be the starter for the races on both days and Coach Brown will time the boats. At the finish Coaches Bert Haines and Bill Haines will be the judges. Altogether there are 63 scullers entered in the events, that number includes, however, the Freshman wherry entrants, many of whom were put out in the elimination races during the last two days...
...this glorious fashion did Mr. Withersq, whose uncle Bert had died and left him a good bit, set out to go into society, with his love Lelia. The dashing lady was "a fair rose of Briton, rather false hair like we see advertised, her somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits...
This afternoon 16 dormitory crews will go on the Charles for the first time. The boats are made up entirely of the inexperienced Freshmen who have been rowing for several weeks on the machines. These men were arranged into eights yesterday by Coach Bert Haines and rowed in the same places that they will occupy when they take boats out on the water today...
These crews will be considerably shifted as the men become more accustomed to their positions and in the final arrangement by Coaches Bert Haines and Bill Haines they will hold an interdormitory regatta that will probably take place on Monday and Tuesday, November 5 and 6. After the regattas have been held and the regular season closed for most crews some men will be permitted to row in sculls and a few eights will continue to cow as long as the weather permits...
Earnest followers of American progress in musical comedy recall with poignant regret the death of Bert Savoy (TIME, July 9). Savoy was a female impersonator; the most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York...