Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complex Crawford family left the hospital, freighted with baby formulas, feeding schedules and pediatric advice which they could scarcely follow in their one-room shack. Effie told the world at large: "We all's gonna name the baby Bert J. Moses Crawford. The Bert J. don't mean anything, but we don't want people calling him Moses...
High in the gusty November sky, painting the top of the 165-ft. smokestack of the Wagner Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
...Bert Lahr, famous funny man, also believes that the parietal rule is a good thing. He rounded out his remarks with the statement, "It's a good idea for the faculty, but I suppose not so good for the students...
Born in New York, Bert Lahr also, started his career in a "kid act", at the age of 16. He graduated to burlesque and vaudeville, and now rates tops in the art of making people laugh. He has acted in several movies, his last feature completed about five years ago. He likes Hollywood, but has no special interest there. His ambition, now, is to retire soon, and watch things whizz by from the sidelines...
...take a balloon some afternoon and go to the moon. Mitzi Mayfair displays her pretty pertness in many guady vehicles, but perhaps to best advantage in the role of a little old lavender lady, who is pleasantly ruffled by Gil Lamb, the man with the ludicrously disjointed skeleton. Bert Lahr is everything comical from the outdoor man who rhapsodizes on the uses of wood, to the juggler of jazz who squeezes all the latest kinder-gartenish pranks in noise into one amazing din. But the array is next to infinite, with Paul Haakon dancing, Gracie Barrie singing, and an abundant...