Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From behind the anonymity of their credit line, which appears under photographs of every conceivable nature in U. S. newspapers, magazines, textbooks, albums, the Brothers Elmer and Bert Underwood stepped out to announce that they had sold control of their firm to seven younger executives...
...Underwood dynasty will not die, for among the seven purchasers who have been running the business since the brothers retired five years ago, are two more Underwoods, each a vice president: C. Thomas, son of Elmer; E. Roy, son of Bert. The other new owners are President Ben D. Jennings, Laurence E. Rubel, Artist-Illustrator Lejaren 'a Killer, M. D. Behrend, Leo G. Hessler...
...hard, darting, practical glance of Congressman Bertrand ("Bert") Snell the House of Commons must have teemed with curious contrasts. In his own semicircular House of Representatives, for example, males and females sit hatless as in a theatre, facing the "well" beyond which rises Speaker Nicholas Longworth's rostrum. They may not eat, drink or smoke, but may address the House in Spanish?language of the Philippines...
...Deep Stuff and his best friend, persuaded to join by a recruiting sergeant who mentions easy eating, sleeping and band music, seem to have humorous possibilities. But Anybody's War is only mildly funny. The trouble is partly the interjection of an unnecessary lovestory, and partly that Bert Swor, who takes Moran's old part in the team, acts merely as a feeder to Mack. Best shot: X-ray of a stomach containing a pair of dice and a fishhook...
Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...