Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meters: Ivan Fuqua, Indiana; Tim Ring, Holy Cross; Don McGuigan, Harvard Business School; Carlisle Abell, Harvard; Joseph Murphy, Holy Cross; Bert Graham, Holy Cross...
Theatregoers may not roll in the aisles when lanky Ray Bolger impersonates a window dresser retiring for the night, or when squalling, grimacing Bert Lahr is bilked by a stockbroker. But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack who brings to the footlights an old trick that made his Victor record, "Snores & Sneezes," famed some 20 years ago. Mr. Wildhack timidly comes onstage in cap & gown, nervously thumbing a notebook, to lecture on labial "Sound Phenomena." With authentic academic embarrassment, he takes up snores, classifies them scientifically, self-consciously illustrates them. Snore 2 d, the "Westinghouse Airbrake...
...Coach Bert Haines has kept his Freshman alert in the same positions and anticipated a close race with the Ed beginners...
This obvious political possibility stung the Republicans into a frenzy. Angrily cried Minority Leader Bert Snell: "This is probably the boldest attempt ever made by a political party to pay 105,000 Democratic political election day workers out of the Federal Treasury." Under gag rule Democratic leadership sandwiched in the census bill after all members had been summoned to the floor to pass a processing tax on hogs. Shrilled Massachusetts' Republican Martin: "It is eminently fitting the leadership of the House should assign this pork bill to follow the roll call on the hog bill...
...music will be supplied by the orchestras of Jackie Marshard and Bert Lowe; who will play from opposite ends of the dining hall in the Union. Entertainment will be furnished by Lew Conrad and Billy Traske...