Word: bert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jubilee was managed and conducted on a larger scale than the three preceding ones. It was held on June 2 and received a great deal of publicity because of the fact that the Class of 1922 engaged two prominent orchestras to play. Bert Lowe from Boston and Market from New York were on hand with their jazzy post-war syncopators and furnished the inspiration. The interdormitory singing contest again featured the evening, but the dance craze had begun and no longer was the Jubilee primarily for relatives and music-lovers...
...Thinking of You" from The Five O'Clock Girl-Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby...
Picturesque Bert Acosta, who later flew to France with Byrd, and ill-starred Lloyd Bertaud, who later was lost attempting the flight to Rome in Old Glory, were favored by Mr. Levine. Col. Chamberlin got the job because Inventor Giuseppe M. Bellanca, designer of the Columbia, said he flew well no matter how he filmed and weighed a lot less than either Acosta or Bertaud...
...worrying about his digestion. This was the expression which through a warm afternoon last week in St. Petersburg, Fla., appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead...
...small plane taxied right up to the fence of the home at Bundaberg, Australia, last week. Flyer Harold (Bert) Hinkler stepped stiffly out and kissed his mother waiting there. That was the goal of his record-breaking solo flight from Croyden, England, to the Antipodes...