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Word: sylvia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This season, theater lovers can look with some hope to a midtown Manhattan cubbyhole. There, amid the jangle of telephones, a stagestruck, 27-year-old girl rides herd on thousands of good tickets to the best shows in town. Plump, Brooklyn-born Sylvia Siegler works 14 hours a day on her new business-the Show-of-the-Month Club, which has caught on so fast that next week it moves into a whole floor of offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Standing Room Only | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Also named to executive posts for the year are Sylvia Rice '50, of Barnard Hall and Millbury, vice-president; Jennifer Post '51, of Barnard Hall and Haverford, Pennsylvania, secretary; Jean O'Brien '51, of Belmont, treasurer; and Elizabeth Tucker '52, of Barnard Hall and West Hartford, Connecticut, sophomore representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Braverman Voted Annex President | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...Sylvia Rice '50 of Cabot Hall and Millbury: major--English; make-up editor, news editor, Radcliffe News; Athletic Association Council; Outing Club; assistant editor, Redbook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Nominates 24 for Student Government | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...fire at Radcliffe's Whitman Hall was discovered and extinguished by Sylvia Nuser '49 at 9:50 p.m. Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Girl Quells Fire With Hands | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

When the curtain slipped down with John Loder and Sylvia Sidney in the third-act clinch of "O Mistress Mine," my throat was a little hoarse from laughing, but I had a vague notion that I had been gypped. For the first two acts of the play I thought I was enjoying not only a genuinely laughable piece, but a comedy which was even sounder for recognizing a human problem and treating it with sympathy. But the final resolution is just a magical blend of cajolery and near-fraud that makes Terence Rattigan's "O Mistress Mine" merely another very...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: O Mistress Mine | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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