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...gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with mysticism and was homesick. As they grew into pre-War maturity they all became hopelessly more & more the same thing...
...doses of castor oil gravely injured a U. S. Army doctor's career last week. Lieut. Colonel Bertram Foster Duckwall of Fort Clayton, Canal Zone ordered an oil purge for an enlisted man with an injured foot. Another soldier suffering from appendicitis received a similar dose. Seriously injudicious were those purgings, decided a board of Army officers who court-martialed Lieut. Colonel Duckwall and ordered his promotion to a colonelcy, when due, delayed a full year...
...Both Bertram Sidney Thomas, first white man to cross the great Southern Arabian Desert (1930), and H. St. John Philby, a later traveler, encountered natives who told them of a once magnificent city buried in the sands. Aware of this, some archeologists hesitated to throw too much cold water on the Malraux bulletin, preferred to wait and see the photographs which lucky l'Intransigeant was expecting...
...Sarawak is also officially "under the protection of Great Britain." This tie is not weakened by the fact that Rajah Brooke's wife is a daughter of the late Viscount Esher, his daughter is the wife of British Shipping Tycoon Lord Inchcape and his brother and heir Major Bertram Brooke is wedded to the onetime Gladys Palmer (Huntley & Palmers biscuits) who enjoys the distinction among Mohammedans of possessing the tunic of The Prophet, values...
...Having been in succession a Protestant, a Christian Scientist, and a Roman Catholic, Mrs. Bertram Brooke went up in an airplane over the British channel to be received into the faith of Mohammed by a red-fezzed dignitary of the Western Islamic Association who shouted above the roar of propellers: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." (TIME...