Call It the Pisces Effect. When he was younger, the Rev. Melvin Poindexter Miller had been torn between pursuing a career in dance or the ministry. After he was accepted into a seminary, though, the decision seemed behind him.
Bertie is a masculine given name. (See also Bertie (nickname) .) Notable people with the name include: 1  Bertie Brownlow (1920â2004), Tasmanian cricket player.2  Bertie Childs (born 1894), British Olympic fencer. 3  Bertie Cooksley (1894â1980), New Zealand politician of the National Party.ertie is a masculine given name. (See also Bertie (nickname) .) Notable people with the name include: 1  Bertie Brownlow (1920â2004), Tasmanian cricket player. 2  Bertie Childs (born 1894), British Olympic fencer.
servile parasite, 1826, apparently shortened from toad-eater fawning flatterer (1742), originally referring to the assistant of a charlatan, who ate a toad (believed to be poisonous) to enable his master to display his skill in expelling the poison (1620s). The verb is recorded from 1827. Related: Toadied; toadying.