Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over one hundred inexperienced yearling oars are churning the placid waters of the Charles daily, as Bert Haines, Freshman coach, directs their efforts in the Leviathan, traditional training barge of future Red Top huskies...
Since the grand jury hearings were secret, little was revealed as to the quality of evidence to be offered when the accused are brought to trial this autumn. One Bert Hollinger of Le Mars, ex-bootlegger and smalltime "fixer" now serving five years for extortion, testified that in 1933 he paid cash in return for the bootlegging and slot-machine privileges in Plymouth and Woodbury Counties to Attorney General O'Connor. "O'Connor said it was very strange that I would insist on wanting to make the first payment to him direct, and I told him that I didn...
...dancer, Eleanor Powell, instead of the usual soprano. Miss Powell plays the part of Irene Foster, an upState girl who goes to Manhattan to get a job with Bob Gordon (Robert Taylor), a musical comedy producer who was her high-school sweetheart. Gordon's enemy, Columnist Bert Keeler (Jack Benny), has invented a French actress, La Belle Arlette. To confuse Gordon, who refuses to give her a job, Irene steps into the fictitious identity. The rest of her stepping, which occupies considerable footage, confirms her status as the world's greatest female tap dancer. The picture includes...
Recently members of the William & Mary chapter, curious about the smudged minutes, sent them to Bert C. Farrar, a U. S. Treasury expert in Washington whose job is to read illegible documents. Using a powerful camera, hawk-eyed Expert Farrar last week deciphered this passage: "For the better distinction of the fraternity between themselves, in any foreign country or place, it is resolved that a salutation of the clasp of the hands, together with an immediate stroke across the mouth with the back of the same hand, and a return [salute] with the hand [?] used by the saluted, be hereby...
...Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert Fish, in Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John Cudahy, in Riga, U. S. Envoy John Van A. Macmurray ticked off on their fingers the days to their departures. For a diplomatic pilgrimage was on, a pilgrimage of which the holy city was Washington, the temple the White House, its shrine...