Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mrs. Hoover was a co-ed at Stanford, she knew and liked Marguerite May Blake there, a serious-minded girl studying medicine. Miss Blake married Ray Lyman Wilbur, whom Herbert Hoover was to choose for his Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Wilbur is Mrs. Hoover's closest friend in official Washington...
...When Ray Lyman Wilbur left Leland Stanford's presidency to become President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, there were predictions that the long-discussed Department of Education might now become a reality, with Dr. Wilbur as its first chief...
...effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn...
...Freshman line-up today will be Frame, No. 1. Woodbury, No. 3, Townsend, No. 3, Beyer, No. 4, Sedgwick, No. 5, Patterson, No. 6, with Wadsworth and Ray entered in the doubles...
Doubles--Bender and Semple (M.I.T.) defeated Frame and A. W. Patterson by default; Woodbury and G. B. Ray defeated Regan and Ross (M.I.T.), 6-1, 6-4; Orlandini and Cole defeated Bunshaft and Belding (M.I.T...