Word: alec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pretty Betsy Canning was a long time finding out that Husband Alec was not the man she, thought she married. For 15 years she had been the wife of an obscure civil servant who seemed as pleased as she was with their three children, a tasteful circle of friends as decently well off as themselves. Suddenly, after Alec's and Johnnie Graham's amateur operetta had made a sensation, she found herself a back number entertaining mobs of Alec's "Yahoo" theatrical acquaintances. He began living in a "genial, gregarious, alcoholic mist" and now declared that their...
...first time I have been requested to pose with a bathing beauty and I am nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. "Yellow fever." observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. "has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions...
JILL SOMERSET-Alec Waugh-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Rambling story of a middle-class English girl, who avoids the political conflicts that split her family, the moral chaos that engulfs her sister, keeps herself occupied raising three children and fighting off rivals for her husband...
Ross Alexander is a prize smart-alec, and his role in "Here Comes Carter" suits him perfectly. A Holywood publicity agent, he wise-crack himself out of his job and into digging dirt for a radio gossip hour. Ross takes over the broadcast when his boss gets drunk, and by fancy mudslinging becomes the darling of the ether. His girl resents this sordid occupation, and, together with some gangsters whom he is exposing in his broadcasts, brings adventures to the here. In the fade-out, however, true love triumphs...
...seemed entirely capable of taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge young man whose crude swing is capable of propelling the ball 350 yd., he had won most of his matches with disheartening ease. When he disposed of Alec Hill, who had beaten beefy Cyril Tolley in the quarterfinals, there was no one left between him and the title except Scotland's stylish Hector Thomson...