Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a young man out of Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians...
Stoopnagle and Bud, famous for their work on the radio, perform on the stage with a seemingly natural knack of knowing what will get a laugh. They take off Rudy Valee, Bert Lahr, and the Barbasol Man. The imitation of Rudy's singing by Bud was excellent, and elicited many healthy sniggers from the audience. No less commendable in the stage show was a couple which did the tango and rumba gracefully...
Varsity crew candidates will report this afternoon at Lowell House common room at 4 o'clock where plans for fall rowing will be outlined by coaches Charles Whiteside. Bert Haines and Ed Brown. Work will start at Newell boat house tomorrow afternoon...
Only two U. S. Ambassadors still hold over from the Hoover Administration. They are Joseph Clark Grew in Japan. Fred Morris Dearing in Peru. Both are able career diplomats who presumably will be continued at their present posts. Also last week President Roosevelt appointed the following U. S. Ministers: Bert Fish of Florida to Egypt. Lawyer, judge, spry campaign cash collector, Minister Fish owns large citrus groves around De Land. James Marion Baker of South Carolina to Siam. Frederick Augustine Sterling of Texas to Bulgaria. Career Diplomat Sterling has served as Minister to the Irish Free State since...
...Latin-American State. Finally they arrive at the Greek island. Travers cannot persuade the engineers to give up their project, elects to have himself blown up with the temple. Meantime, Mrs. Travers and Mantell have gotten tired looking for Travers, have decided to concentrate their attention on each other. Bert the seaman, it turns out. was the only one who had an inkling of what his dreamy employer was groping for. "You think a man is not quite all there if he puzzles you," he tells the electrician just before the temple goes up. "He can't be right...