Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bert Haines, Freshman coach refereeing the regatta, will start the festivities at 2 o'clock when he orders his first boat to "Row!" against Coach Charlie Whiteside's eight over the new mile and three quarters course ending just off the Union Boat Club...
Hugh Herbert, William Gargan, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, and Bert Roach make the feature picture really funny. It's all about a tooth paste war which can be an interesting war with Joan Blondell and William Gargan cutting each other's throats. Hugh Robert continues his excellent screen career as an inventor. This time he makes "Cocktall Toothpaste," an ides which has an insidious resemblance to Maurice Chevalier's liquorized chewing gum in "The Big Pond." The ides theft can be condoned, however by the magnificence of Mr. Herbert's acting...
...first Crimson shell will not compete against the New Yorkers even in this race, an informal and off-the-schedule contest, but will be pitted against Bert's prize yearlings. The Freshman seconds will have opportunity to bet shirts with the Manhattan first '38 shell...
...Bert Acosta, onetime [1923-25] chief test pilot for Curtiss-Wright, famed as "the bad boy of aviation." Frequently in official bad graces because of intoxication and stunting, Acosta was finally grounded in 1929. Since then he has been mostly jobless. Fellow pilots still rate...
...yearlings under Bert which will probably be chosen to stay are the present first two crews, but Bort is not definite about the positions and there will probably be some changes at the end of today's row. Chace, stroke of the first boat, cut his hand yesterday and will be on the injured list most of vacation it is thought. The tentative seatings in the first boat are: stroke, Edgar B. Van Winkle, 2nd; 7, Edmund S. Twining, Jr.; 6, Douglas Erickson; 5, John S. Radway; 4, Scott; 3, John Gardiner; 2, Clark; bow, Peter T. Brooks...