Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This plan would destroy South House in total disregard of its autonomy and house unity. It will require 131 present inhabitants of Briggs. Bertram and Barnard to leave their House, which is contrary to the underlying spirit of the House system. Moveover, it will require the conversion of some common living spaces in South House into bedrooms, thereby further crippling the House...
...Russian diplomats, entertainers and their families for two years, but its leaders were quick to disclaim responsibility for last week's crime. From Israel, where he is trying to form a worldwide J.D.L., Rabbi Meir Kahane called the bombings "insane." The acting head of J.D.L., New York Attorney Bertram Zweibon, denied that there had ever been a J.D.L. plan to bomb the Hurok and Columbia offices, both of which have booked Russian talent for the U.S. Hurok, 83, has long been an object of the league's enmity. As the foremost importer of Russian talent, he introduced...
...following women were elected to RUS positions earlier this week: Mary W. Lightbody '74 of Jordan J., President; Sandra Kopit '73 of Currier House, Vice President; Elizabeth P. Marsh '74 of Currier House, Secretary; Ann Bailen '73 of Eliot House, Treasurer, Liss Jeffrey '73 of Bertram and Rebecca S. Martin '74 of Coggeshall will be the two Delegates to the Governing Boards...
Wodehouse's comedies take place in a Never-neverland of fin-de-siecle English aristocracy, where a young man like Bertram Wooster has nothing to do but go to his club, visit his aunts in the country, and fall in and out of love, a world in which the greatest crime is to knock off a bobby's hat during Race Week at Oxford, and the greatest calamity is to find oneself engaged--a sort of Importance of Being Earnest world, but without Wilde's malice. Though Wodehouse has other sets of characters who live in this world, none have...
There are also loony flights of fancy: the world as understood by Bertram Wooster. In one of Wodehouse's few topical allusions. Bertie and his Aunt Dahlia muse on Jeeves' statement that, "If steps are not taken shortly through the proper channels, half the world will soon be standing on the other half's shoulders...