Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present at the gala premiere were a quorum of Hollywood actresses, cinema celebrities like Darryl Zanuck, Jack Warner, Cecil B. DeMille, who had paid $1,000 each for "lifetime" cover charges, permission to sit in an "inner circle." Chunks of scenery fell down, the show was an hour late, the revolving stages failed to turn properly, microphones went dead, a disappearing platform jerked the prima donna out of sight during one of her songs, and a waiter dropped a trayful of dishes during a dance spectacle. Hollywood pronounced the opening a success...
...also owns the Detroit Red Wings (major-league hockey club). Last week when the Red Wings lost their seventh game out of nine this season, it was too much for Owner Norris. Dipping into his gold-lined jeans, he persuaded the league-leading Boston Bruins to sell Goaltender Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson for $15,000 (highest price ever paid for a goalie). No less shocked than hockey fans was Tiny Thompson (so named because he is so big), who had been with the Bruins ten years, had helped them climb to top ranking in their division of the league five times...
...gave him a pound to pay his debts, agreed to the experiment. With Shaw's approval for his project he had little trouble getting as much as he needed. He assembled about $250,000-less than Hollywood spends on most quickies. He hired Screenwriters W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis to write a scenario, rented a studio and set to work...
Gloriana (by Ferdinand Bruckner) is about Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon. Robert Cecil, Philip II of Spain, Northumberland. Mountjoy and many another Elizabethan. It makes all of them out dull people...
...Scientific Allies of Medicine" will be the subject of President Conant's speech. Dr. Arlie V. Bock head of the Hygiene Department and Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will talk on "Your Health and Mine"; Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology and Dean of the School of Public Health, has chosen as his subject "Death on Monday Morning, or Man-Made Disease," and Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, will discuss "Laboratories and Epidemics." After these talks the subject will be thrown open to debate and questions will be invited from the floor, with President Conant...