Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...
...rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief of them all," and Ralph Teter, "brains of the $350,000 Dearborn Station mail robbery...
Into the eastern sky over the English Channel vanished Harold J. L. ("Bert") Kinkier last January, off from England to regain his oldtime speed record to Australia. He was not sighted again. Last week in the Pratomagno Woods near Florence, Italy a group of charcoal burners stumbled upon the wreckage of an airplane. About 30 feet away lay a body identified by clothing marks as Pilot Hinkler's. Propeller and engine of the plane were buried in the mountainside. The remainder of the ship was intact, including a full fuel tank...
...Bruins and losing but three. The invaders are as follows: Henshaw, 3b.; Munroe, r.f.; Kroeger, c.f.; captain; Tracy, l.f., a former Boston Latin School captain whi will attract a crowd of fans from Greater Boston; Caito, 2b.; Gilmartin, 1b.; Burt, s.s.; Fowler, c. Coach Jack Kelleher's ace, Bert Hamphries is expected to pitch...
...Farmer, Cotton, Rosenberg, c.pt. c.pt., Davis, Scott Gunlach, Gardner, pt. pt., Harrington, Chase Angle, Holsapple, Amberg, 1d. 1d., Angelis, Pierce, Tofsky Feins, Murphy, 2d. 2d., Buckley, Moore, Horn Housch, c. c., Mathers, Hayes LeRoy, Way, DeWolfe, 2a. 2a., Bisserofsky Graziano, Duffield, 1a. 1a., Paterno Owens, Lunt, c.h. c.h., Muchnick, Bert Tucker, Redshaw, Skerpan, i.h. i.h., Donnao, Winnick...