Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHILDREN OF STRANGERS-Lyle Saxon -Houghton Mifflin...
...week before a battery of microphones stood 16 nervous boys and girls. They were finalists in the 13th annual Louisville Courier-Journal National Spelling Bee in which 15 other newspapers participated. They were about to produce the closest practical approximation of the "best speller in the U. S." Representative Lyle Boren of Oklahoma was standing with the judges. Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three. Then the only remaining boy, Angelo Mangieri of Hoboken and the Jersey Observer, 14 and totally blind, tripped on receptacle...
...Theodore Lyle Hazlett '40 of Pittsburgh, a graduate of Taylor Allderdice High, will receive his Freshman numerals after winning the baseball managerial contest...
...advantage that, since the game consists largely of scrambling, the posture of the subject does not, like that of almost any actress photographed with a tennis racquet, reveal that she does not know much about the game. Able male Hollywood badminton addicts are Pat O'Brien, Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Robert Montgomery. In Hollywood, the virtues of badminton, like many other things, have been exaggerated...
Mavis Arden, a famed cinemactress on tour with her publicity agent (Warren William), has only one insterest in life, which it is his job to frustrate. The interest is men. In Washington, Mavis meets a Congressman (Lyle Talbot), makes an engagement for the next night in Harrisburg. To prevent her from keeping it, Pressagent Stevens sees to it that her car breaks down en route. Forced to stay over a country boardinghouse, she wastes no time getting down to business. She spots a young mechanic under her car, murmurs, "Look at those strong and sinewy muscles," sidles outdoors to make...