Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day U. S. Minister Bert Fish, one of northeastern Florida's wealthiest men, handsomely backed the Egyptians with many a mention of President Roosevelt's "good-neighbor policy." Declared Minister Fish: "The U. S. will pursue no exclusively national interest. . . . We warmly compliment Egypt on beginning her international career by choosing the way of friendly negotiation...
...working for Ogden Reid. In the War, F. P. A. was a captain in the Intelligence Service, wrote a column, The Listening Post, in the A. E. F. newspaper, The Stars & Stripes. In his years of column-conducting, F. P. A. has been noted, like Chicago's late Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.") as much for his contributors as for his own writings. Some favorite F. P. A. "contribs," under their own names and various pseudonyms, have been Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Guiterman, Writers Sinclair Lewis Morrie (Of Thee I Sing) Ryskind, Ring Lardner...
...first time this year two Freshman crews braved the March cold yesterday to join their Varsity brothers, who have been rowing on the river since February 20. Ice forming later in the afternoon kept the Yardling fifties in the tank, but Coach Bert Haines intends to launch them today...
Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
...Show Is On - The season's top in musicals, with Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr in peak form...