Word: vaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the death of Wisconsin's "Dad" Vail in there has been only one grand old man in rowing, Jim Ten Eyck of Syracuse, now in his 86th year and active in the sport. His son, Young Jim, is coaching the infant Rutgers crew on Raritan. Syracuse, under Ten Eyck, is always a threat...
...telephone operator in her father's office Kay Boyle wrote voluminously, met and married a French engineering student at the University of Cincinnati. At 19 she went to France with her husband, has lived there ever since (she is now 31). Two years ago she married Author Laurence Vail, by whom she has" two daughters, one named Apple (see cut). Says Expatriate Boyle: "In literature, I have never wholly liked the work of women with the exception of Gertrude Stein. Tact and complacency have long been woman's attributes, and I think they prove a drawback to good...
These elephantine tales come from Mr. Robert W. G. Vail, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society--formerly headed by President Calvin Coolidge. America's circus history, Mr. Vail says, began in 1720 with the arrival in Boston of a "lyon." Devotees of the "big top" first suffered a setback when "Old Bet," the second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters...
...Raymond Vail Ingersoll, Borough President of Brooklyn, who has acted as an arbitrator in labor disputes for the cloak & suit and the knit-goods industries, who served as chairman of New York's minimum wage board when Frances Perkins was New York's Commissioner of Labor...
...Coat, a Glove. It merely shows that Mr. Mitchell has a 16-cylinder legal mind, with big names in his address book. For such a bland, patrician barrister, he is in a most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan) has left him to sin with a young illustrator (Lester Vail). The illustrator has fished a drowning prostitute out of the East River, rushed off to ask Mrs. Mitchell what to do about her. Lawyer Mitchell has chosen this awkward first act moment to call upon the illustrator and settle the score with him. He finds the prostitute there alone, accidentally...