Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in a Springfield schoolroom officers found the boy. His name was Cecil Kiper and he was ten years old. Sullen with fright, he denied knowing anything about the fire until taken before Governor Horner, who used to be a juvenile court judge. There Cecil Kiper told how he had filled a bag with shavings, weighted it with solder, lighted it, thrown it on the armory stage...
...like to see burning buildings," said Cecil Kiper...
...real that when Indians set fire to his church and Marigold was sentenced to burn as a witch he dashed into the flames with her. To many a member of the Metropolitan audience the dream was as unreal with its slinky dancers and baskets of fruit as a Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett as Wrestling came nearest...
...Cecil Smith, Texas cowboy, and Elmer J. Boeseke Jr. of California, who were mainly responsible for the West's polo victory over the East last summer: ten-goal handicap rating by the U. S. Polo Association. Only other ten-goaler this year is famed Tommy Hitchcock, for the 13th successive season...
...make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began selling Fords in Dallas. Norval A. Hawkins, Ford's salesmanager, was staging a nation-wide sales contest and to everyone's surprise the young Texan won it. Soon he was working directly for Ford. Next he became head of Reo's sales in California. Then...