Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encyclopedia, slang comes under the letter S, and it is there that Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) and his seven unwed colleagues get stuck. Potts takes pencil and notebook and sets out to get unstumped. He is lucky; he meets Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck...
Died. Alonzo Bertram See (A. B. See elevators), 94, retired misogynist; in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attracted national attention in 1922 when he recommended that "all women's colleges should be burned," but in 1936 he entertained 15 career women in his home, told a reporter: "Up to tonight I still had the same opinion. But I changed it tonight...
Spring" Again (by Isabel Leighton & Bertram Bloch; produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) becomes a funny comedy about an hour and a half after the curtain rises. Until then it pants and puffs, nervously broad-jumping from joke to joke and depending for interest on the deft performance of Comedienne Grace George (The Circle, Kind Lady). When, at the end of Act II, it suddenly bolts forward like a race horse that has been given the whip, it's a little too late for it to be in the money...
Died. Dr. Frederick Bertram Robin son, 58, ex-President of New York's City College; in Manhattan. Energetic organizer, dabbler in the arts, he was known as a campus diplomat before he ran afoul of liberal and radical students in the ideological '305, after that had a stormy time, was the subject of a mock trial, picketing, ouster movements, before he resigned...
...Sarawak," you attribute to me the authorship of a book entitled Relations and Complications, which you say reveals the details of the Raja's courtship of me and our marital relations. I did not write the book. It was authored by the wife of the Tuan Muda (Captain Bertram Brooke), my brother-in-law, and it does not contain any details of the type you refer...