Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Jacob Bertha Levison, president of Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., founder of the San Francisco Symphony Society; to be president of the Musical Association of San Francisco (sponsors of the orchestra...
...Than was Bertha, who claim'd thy heart...
Last week Margarete Matzenauer was again the mother "dearer than Bertha" to her son the Prophet- this time Giovanni Martinelli, though Mme. Matzenauer has often been "dearer" to the late Enrico Caruso...
...Brooklyn, a Mrs. Bertha Turner, janitress, was walking upstairs followed by her police dog, Vol. Before reaching the top floor, Mrs. Bertha Turner turned into a room; her absent-minded Vol, his eyes upon his paws, failed to notice this and continued walking upstairs until he came out upon the roof. Soon he heard his name being called by the voice of Mrs. Bertha Turner. Excited, he twice whirled about on the roof top; she was not in sight. Suddenly he realized that the voice came from below; with a wild and silly hop he jumped over the edge...
...Mayor Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: "Last week I paused, before signing an ordinance creating the job of 'bull cook' at a municipal hydro-electric work camp, to remark: 'It seems that the [City] Council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...