Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change is seen this year also in the attraction offered Harvard and Dartmouth undergraduates in the orchestras. For the first time a nationally known orchestra will supply part of the music. Continuous music will be played throughout the evening by McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Detroit colored orchestra, and Bert Lowe...
...President Hoover. The President saw trundled by a little cart bearing a keg, jugs, empty gin bottles festooned in crêpe paper. He heard crowds yelling: "There's something for Hoover to swallow! What do you think of that, Mr. Hoover? Hurrah for Ritchie! Stand up, Bert! Take off your hat! Bow! You're all wet, Ritchie!" As the Wet demonstration continued under his nose the President's round face lost its affable smile and the corners of his mouth went down into a grim expression. After he had returned silently to Washington...
Forty-eight years ago, peddling books from door to door in Kansas, Bert and Elmer Underwood threw up their jobs. They had discovered that stereoscopic pictures sold much quicker than books. In another year they had canvassers all over the Midwest selling those double-ended postcards which nice people used to slide into felt lined holders and peer at through the marvelous lenses that showed you the real Matterhorn, the actual "Scene at Brighton Beach." Aware that prosperity lay in "World Educational" pictures, the brothers shouldered their bulky cameras and in 1896 went to Europe. They "did" Egypt, Palestine...
...year 1898 found Brother Bert in Thessaly, where Greece and Turkey were at war. The war-ravaged territory suggested the idea of a newspicture service. Bert worked his way back to Athens, developed his plates, sent the prints on to Brother Elmer in London. Elmer made a layout, sold it to the London Illustrated News for 60 guineas ($307). The idea was so novel that he got $300 more from a New York paper for the same scenes. Thus began the first newspaper picture service...
...Brother Bert had a way with women and, to the utter amazement of the London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head...