Word: lila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sailor & the Cop. At 18, Los Angeles-born Daws Trotman, as he later recounted, "gambled and was very deep in the world." He was courting a girl named Lila, as religious as she was pretty, and she took him with her to some church meetings. At the second meeting Dawson was the only one there who had memorized six Bible verses that had been assigned at the first meeting. The same thing happened at the third meeting. The following week he was "taken of the Lord," converted to evangelistic Christianity, and welcomed to membership in the interdenominational Church...
...LILA F. JANEWAY
...LILA WOLF...
...group in effecting an orderly transition.'' Young, who knew the result three days earlier (when it was also leaked to the press), wasted no time taking over the world's second biggest railroad. Less than an hour after the official count was announced, Young and Mrs. Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, a member of his directors' slate and co-owner of the Reader's Digest, marched out of his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building and walked the three blocks to the Park Avenue offices of the Central. There his group of directors...
...Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, 63, co-owner and co-editor with her husband DeWitt Wallace of Reader's Digest, has been added by Robert R. Young to his proposed slate of New York Central directors. If Young wins his battle for control of the Central, Mrs. Wallace will become the first woman director of a major U.S. railroad. Said she: "I think everything needs a woman's touch...