Word: lila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overcoats sat in a corner, staring admiringly at Joe. The boys came in from the Elks Club, and the office filled with noise. Joe grinned indulgently. Brother Charlie winked at some of the boys and invited them upstairs for a quick one (Joe does not drink). Mrs. Lila W. Doe, secretary of the Republican Committee for Franklin, Mass., arrived. LIFE Photographer Allan Grant was there to take pictures (see cut). Joe was back on the telephone. "Send out the notices for the Steering Committee meeting," he said, getting down to business...
...Lila Lee, doll-faced heroine of the silents, and off & on the theatrical comeback trail ever since, took it easy at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanitarium, said she was "doing beautifully," after nearly a year there, hoped to be back in Manhattan late this summer...
Pique Peck. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lila Roman charged that when she refused Manuel Lira a date he bit off the end of her nose...
Last month Burlesqueen Ann Corio made her debut as a legitimate actress at the Kenley Deer Lake Theatre on the outskirts of Pennsylvania's hard-coal district. Cast as "Princess Kalima," the hula dancer in The Barker (with silent cinema stars James Kirkwood and Lila Lee), the shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string...
...with the idea of reprinting condensations of worthwhile articles-and today has a circulation of 3,200,000 copies. With no advertising but with a simple format and a substantial price (25? a copy) it became a highly profitable enterprise in the hands of its editor-owners DeWitt and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace...