Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backfield Coach Dave Colwell had his first blow of the week when it was learned that Gordon Lyle, promising St. Paul's wingback, would be out for the season. On top of that Graham is out with a bad foot, Waldstein with a cold, and possibly McNicol with an injured knee...
...losers showed drive and spectacular offense unusual for a Yardling team at the start of the season. They started the scoring when Don McNicol, a sterling halfback, found Bill Lyle with a pass in the first quarter...
...jail at the invitation of the kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions but that it did so without working up a perspiration. Strict adherence to the Rogers formula gives The Arkansas Traveler, first picture...
Quick Drops. When examining eyes for errors of refraction oculists use homatropine drops to dilate the pupils, paralyzing the muscles of accommodation. Chief objection to homatropine is that its effects sometimes last as long as 36 hours. Dr. Lyle Stephenson Powell of Lawrence, Kans. followed homatropine with small quantities of Benzedrine sulfate or with eserine (a drug derived from the African Calabar bean) in an alkaline solution similar to human tears. Result: quick-acting drops. Within four hours some patients were able to read newspapers again...
...morning late in May the Tira was gone from her mooring, and gone from their Santa Cruz homes were Lyle Tara and two of his Irish messmates, 17-year-old James Henninger and 16-year-old William Grace. For weeks there was no word of boys or yacht. Merchant Foote broadcast descriptions of the Tira up & down the coast. Then, 28 days later, the Tira heeled swiftly down Banderas Bay into Puerto Vallarta, 2,000 miles from Santa Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico. News travels slowly from Puerto Vallarta, an isolated fishing village hemmed in by coast ranges...