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Word: helene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of all is a most remarkable superwoman, Miss Helen Ella True, de jure Secretary to the President, but de facto President of Stanford in the absence of Dr. Wilbur. Her chief qualities: imperturbability and omniscience. She out-poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Married. Oliver Morosco, owner of Morosco Theatres (Manhattan, Los Angeles), producer (Peg O' My Heart, Bird of Paradise) ; and Helen McRuer, legitim-actress; in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Connecticut she turns herself over to her caretaking couple, her gardens, her guitar. There she entertains her closest friends?Elsie Janis, Ethel Barrymore, Clare Eames, Constance Collier, Mrs. Stuart Benson (business manager of the Civic Repertory Theatre), Madame Ouspensky (directrix of the American Laboratory Theatre), Mercedes de Acosta, Helen Lohmann, Irma Kraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Ga., one Helen Smith told a housekeeper that she was a police officer so that she might enter the house, put in a telephone call free of charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Grocer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson. You can see that the audiences make no demand for any super-ingenuity in the plotting of the musical interludes...

Author: By Richard WATTS Jr., | Title: Talkies Even More Uniform Than Silent Productions--Backstage, College Lead | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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