Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hartley Board of Regents which ousted Suzzalo draped the presidential mantle around Matthew Lyle Spencer, director of Washington's School of Journalism, but put the presidential sceptre in the hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked...
Another of the President's fishing friends was a distant cousin. Kermit Roosevelt, son of T. R., friend and partner of Vincent Astor in the shipping business. The rest were, with two exceptions, socialites: William Rhinelander Stewart, Mr. Astor's best friend; Lyle Hull who last spring was Mr. Stewart's bicycling companion in Bermuda; George St. George, young, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, English-bred member of Tuxedo's horsy set. Mrs. George St. George was the onetime Katharine Price Collier, stepsister of the President's cousin Warren Delano Robbins, U. S. Minister to Canada...
Beginning March 2, and running for one week, the Metropolitan offers "Mandalay" with Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, and Kay Francis. On the stage is the Scott Furrier fashion show and Will Mahoney of the "Vanities". The story, which is laid in Rangoorf forms a romantic setting for the striking beauty of Miss Francis...
...given to hyperbole and superlative is the U. S. cosmetics industry. High priests of the beauty business seldom fail to inject into any serious discussion of their industry the magic phrase: "Two Billion Dollars." Last week at a divisional meeting of the American Cosmeticians' Association in Chicago, Thomas Lyle Williams, President of Maybelline Co., was happy to report that the beauty business was running 15% to 20% ahead of last year. That, said Beautician Williams, would mean a $500,000,000 increase in volume for 1934, a grand total for the Industry...
...incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes infatuated with a ne'er-do-well surgeon (Lyle Talbot) who marries the blonde daughter (Thelma Todd) of a bigwig politician and deserts his serious interest in medicine for spasmodic practice in a city clinic. When Surgeon Andrews has tired of his wife and is planning a divorce, Mary takes up with him again and soon is expecting a baby; then Mrs. Andrews decides...