Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hips, Hips, Hooray (RKO). "Frisby's Beauty Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into...
...Guardsman has stood patter in the House through the years than Bert Snell. Yet even he, last week, seemed infected with a new political spirit. Said he: "The whole country, the whole world is leaning more & more toward Liberalism. It is the popular acclaim. Political parties will yield to it for support. We, who want to continue the form of government that was established here 160 years ago, realize the drift. But we do not want this country swept into outright Socialism. We do not want our present institutions wiped out!" Preparations for the House session began weeks...
...Manhattan, Bert Nevins, 24, was charged with cruelty to animals when a turkey was found in his hotel room strapped to roller skates...
...arrest of U. S.-born Bert Hall ("General Chan"), onetime instructor to the air forces of China's Nanking and Canton Governments, for swindling a Chinese general out of $10,000 (Mexican) intended as payment for German pistols which never were delivered (TIME, Oct. 30): sentence of two and one-half years to be served in a U. S. penitentiary, imposed by a U. S. extraterritorial court in Shanghai...
...seen at Chicago, but entered for the Manhattan show, is an extraordinary brown stallion named Sir Gilbert. Sir Gilbert is 17, is nearly blind in one eye. Stephen E. Budd of Newtown. Conn., bought him five years ago as a farm dray taught him to jump. Currently Sir Gil bert alternates between fox-hunting and hauling a manure cart...