Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...
...First Legion (by Emmet Lavery; Bert Lytell and Phil Green, producers). The scene is a House of the Society of Jesus, the bare cubicles of the Fathers, the Gothic arches and mullioned windows of the Community Room. The characters, like those in prison and wartime plays, are all male...
Without women, the plot nags at the theological doubts of two younger Fathers. Suddenly all doubts vanish when a miracle seems to have cured a Father who has had paralysis. But the doubts reappear, concentrated in the person of the hero (Bert Lytell), when he learns under the secrecy of the confessional that the miracle was no miracle but only a case of courage induced by a happy dream. Since the Father Rector (William Ingersoll) has designated him to plead the case for the "miracle" and the canonization of the house's founder at Rome, Bert Lytell's faith...
...read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar, and Jim and John; . . . And where are Lizzie, Lute, and Jack and Mack! They, too, have gone and they will not come back...
...Meters Relay, 4.50 o'clock. Italian Entries: Mario Rabaglino, Ulrico Di Blas, Tullio Gonnelli, Luigi Beccali. American Entries: Joseph Murphy, H. C.; Larry Scanlan, H. C.; Bert Graham, H. C.; Ivan Fuqua, Indiana...