Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-hitting, hell-for-leather Western four, beaten in the first of three games, 15 to 11 (TIME, Aug. 21). Since he became a 10-goal player in 1922 the East's Captain Thomas Hitchcock had never been challenged on a field as the West's Cecil Smith had challenged him last fortnight...
...snatch him on a dark street. In Atlanta, President John K. Ottley of the First National Bank identified two boys who had seized, later released him fortnight ago on his way to work (TIME, July 17). Three men were arrested as they lay in wait for another banker, Cecil C. Vaughan, near Franklin, Va. John C. Lyle, mail carrier of Crawfordsville, Ga., was kidnapped by three escaping convicts, driven in his own car to Wake Forest, N. C., freed. A St. Paul physician named Walter H. Hedberg said he was shot through the ear, beaten, drugged, left...
...extreme disappointment then not to find her in this picture, but it is the more a misfortune to find Elissa Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint in Cecil DeMille's evangelistic triumph, "The Sign of the Cross". At that time he decided that Miss Landi had few equals for quiet feminine charm, for quiet sincere acting, and self-effacing hard work. To pick her for the leading light of the Amazonian younger set was as much of a mistake...
...Hippodrome opera cost 99?. Metropolitan performances are put on by a long-experienced impresario who has listened to opera since his cradle days. Opera at the Hippo drome is the venture of two hard-headed theatre men who care nothing about music. But a few years ago when Cecil E. Mayberry was managing a movie house in Chicago he became interested in the money troubles of the Civic Opera Com pany, blamed the high admissions. He and William A. Carroll, who has run hotels and furniture stores in the Midwest, went to New York to put on cheap movies...
...member of the Cabinet, Governor of a State or mayor of a great U. S. city. There are only 20 Rhodesmen in Federal service; 195 are in law. But the rise of pedagogs to high government positions under the Roosevelt Administration may point toward the fruition of Cecil Rhodes's idea, for the biggest group of Rhodesmen (40%) have become educators. Eight are college presidents, 13 deans, one (John James Tigert) was U. S. Commissioner of Education from 1921 to 1928. Other distinguished Rhodesmen include Minister to Austria Gilchrist Baker Stockton, onetime Amateur Boxing Champion Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan...