Word: allyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Educational opportunities are unequal: Allyn Burleson's children in California get twice as much schooling as Brother David's in Nebraska, three times as much as Brother John's in Kentucky. At least 800,000 have no schools at all. >The teaching profession, says Smith College's retired President William Allan Neilson, consists largely of "timid and unimaginative persons to whom moderate comfort, a moderate competence, moderate security are the reward for a moderate amount of moderately conscientious drudgery...
Most of Abbott's actors have worked for him before, call themselves unofficially the Abbott Acting Company, team together smoothly. Arlene Francis is a countess who could warm any blueblood, and Allyn Joslyn, one of the merry scenarists in Boy Meets Girl, makes the playboy a likable wag in spite of his practical jokes and bowlegged puns. Sample: "A lecher is a man who collects lechings...
...show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead and is sardonically congratulated by the steel-trap district attorney who is jealous of his job. All this is so much in the routine of a hot spring afternoon, that the best thing the town's star reporter (Allyn Joslyn) can think of to do when he drops inat police headquarters after writing his parade story, is to sit down in a patrol car and take a nap. His nap is interrupted when the telephone on the sergeant's desk begins to ring. It is the janitor...
Carrie Belle Wilson, daughter of a choir-leader, turned out her first anthem, He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place, at 16. She had already grown to love Allyn Groves Adams, 23-year-old bass in a Paris, Ill. church choir. They married when she was 21 and Mr. Adams went into the hominy business. In 1906 Carrie Belle Adams became associate editor of the Choir Herald, for which she has since written an article or an anthem every month, year in, year out. Her total output: 4,000 compositions, has made more money from high-school operettas and church...
...Charles Edwin Mitchell's new stand. "Charlie" Mitchell's financing for the first half footed up to $263,000,000. Other ranking houses: Lazard Frères ($168,000,000); Bancamerica-Blair ($156,000,000); Halsey, Stuart ($143,000,000); Lehman Bros. ($137,000,000); A. C. Allyn ($128,000,000); Mellon Securities ($113,000,000); Field Glore & Co. ($113,000,000). Chase National Bank was well up in the list ($136,000,000) with its municipal bond underwriting, which is still permissible for commercial banks...