Word: bertaud
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...Braibant's story is the old one of the vampire mother whose dominating ways kill any nascent sense of independence in her children. The "iron" mother, Marlise Bertaud, gets her tremendous power through avarice. She worships at a strong box, spends her evenings balancing her accounts, is as shrewd as a Chinese banker in lending petty sums and collecting five per cent, no more, no less...
...shop, for she has become the fond owner of a grand assortment of mortgages. When Aime, the growing son, shows that he is a dreamer. Marlise contemptuously excludes him from any knowledge of her own little private banking business. Warned that Aime will not be able to protect the Bertaud property after her death. Marlise is still unable to share her control of monies, mortgages, farmland. She has an instinctive realization that she will outlive her son, who wilts and dies in his 50's without ever daring to tell Marlise of his mistress and his bastard son, Remy...
Picturesque Bert Acosta, who later flew to France with Byrd, and ill-starred Lloyd Bertaud, who later was lost attempting the flight to Rome in Old Glory, were favored by Mr. Levine. Col. Chamberlin got the job because Inventor Giuseppe M. Bellanca, designer of the Columbia, said he flew well no matter how he filmed and weighed a lot less than either Acosta or Bertaud...
Another boy constructed a glider and flew 1,000 feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...
Hearst. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst donned trousers and blouse, helmet and goggles, stepped into Lloyd Bertaud's Old Glory, which William Randolph Hearst is financing for a flight to Rome. From the plane she radioed her husband: "Flying over Long Island. I hope the boys reach Rome in Old Glory. I think this is a most wonderful ship. [Signed] Millicent." The Hearst press reported the event widely, including pictures of Mrs Hearst in overalls, blouse, goggles, helmet...
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