Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comparatively obscure Pacifist-Lecturer Sir Norman Angell, recipient of the 1933 Peace Prize last week, announced that he was "too busy"to come to Oslo for his $44,338, had it accepted for him by the British Minister to the Kingdom of Nor way, trusty Cecil F. J. Dormer. Nobel prizes other than Peace are awarded in Stockholm. Last week on the same day that Norway's Crown Prince Olaf watched Premier Mowinckel award Mr. Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine...
Born. To Elizabeth Sturgis Grew Lyon, 22, youngest daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew, and Cecil Burton Lyon. 31, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo: a daughter, their first child, Ambassador Crew's third grandchild; in Tokyo. Name: Alice Emily...
Celebrities thus recorded include: Photographer Cecil Beaton in a cocked hat at the feet of a plaster Venus; Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream...
...Ambassador's three daughters have all married into the Service?Lilla to J. Pierrepont Moffat, now the Department's expert on Disarmament and adroit head of the State Department's Western European division; Elizabeth to Cecil Lyon, Third Secretary at Peiping; Anita to Robert English, Third Secretary at Budapest. It was Mrs. English who swam the Bosporus while her father was Ambassador to Turkey. He fed her chocolate from a boat and played a phonograph to help her rhythm...
...Cecil E. Fraser '20, President of the Cambridge Republican Council, described in what specific ways students can help. "We need your assistance in our telephone and personal campaign, in providing transportation, in helping at headquarters and at the polls," he said. Robert Grinnell '36, President of the Committee, has designated his room, Lowell F-31, as headquarters for the work...