Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drawing students from 46 states, one territory and 10 foreign countries, the school has a total registration of 1,002, according to Assistant Dean George H. Lombard '33. It is the largest number since 1932 and 60 more than last year...
...enrollment which will smash all existing records is expected when the midyear session begins in February. Besides a 96 per cent return of students entered for the first half-year there will be an especially large new crop. Lombard said that more than 90 per cent of the men enlisted for the first time will return again next year for further graduate study...
Wrote tousled Manhattan Columnist Heywood Broun: "The United States Chamber of Commerce might well profit by a little lecture from Miss Carole Lombard." Miss Lombard's little lecture: "I gave the Federal Government 65% of my wages last year, and I was glad to do it, too. . . . Income tax money all goes into improvement and protection of the country. . . . I really think I got my money's worth...
...Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system of cinematic share cropping showed signs of becoming a definite trend. Agent Selznick announced that Carole Lombard and William Powell had agreed to act in pictures on the same sort of terms. Producer Sam Goldwyn followed suit with a statement that Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You), longtime collaborator of Columbia...
...pseudo-Romanoff visage had joined the innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy shirt front, resembles more than he does Windsor...