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Word: leal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash plus five shares of stock in the Association. To lend prestige to his organization. Mr. Pfab also issued 50 shares of stock to each of 28 Tennessee superintendents and other locally prominent educators, who let him use their names as an advisory committee. One of these, Flavius Leal Browning, past president of the Tennessee State Teachers Association, became president of the National Educators' Mutual Association, while Mr. Pfab was executive vice president. With this imposing front the Association prospered mightily, soon had sold 1,000 bonds, taken in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Easy Dupes | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...lecture at Cuddle College for girls, Pearl falls in love with a chambermaid, Zasu Pitts. The lovemaking of the strange pair touches a charming note which Director Walter Lang quickly suppresses. A chorus of girl students, Ted Healy and stooges prance energetically through the proceedings. Finally the leal Baron and then Pearl's Aunt Sophie arrive and thoroughly expose the impostors. Miss Pitts, inconsolable, finds her hero is a pants-presser but follows Pearl anyway - and he is offered a fabulous radio contract. The picture ends with Manager Durante, in a state of wild-eyed, concentrated insanity, dickering with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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